[PD] RRADical users: Memento changes

[Kyle Klipowicz]

These are great!
~Kyle


On 4/29/07, Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org> wrote:
> Hallo,
> Roman Haefeli hat gesagt: // Roman Haefeli wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 10:03 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> >
> > > * But first a cleanup of the ugly patchcord mess is necessary to
> > >   comply with the "footils.org readability dogma 2.0"
> >
> > url, please! i'd really like to read it, but google didn't give me any
> > results, neither did a search for 'readability' or 'dogma' on
> > footils.org.
>
> Sorry, that actually was just a joke: there is no written dogma. ;)
>
> However if you look for example at my [list]-abs objects: They are
> dogma compatible as far as I see.
>
> Maybe I should make one up now:
>
> The Left Wing Dogma
> -------------------
>
> Patchcords must be "left-aligned": cords leaving a left outlet or
> entering a left inlet must be strictly vertical.
>
> The Right Wing Dogma
> --------------------
>
> Idiomatic or pattern-like constructs like counters however should grow
> to the right and not to the bottom:
>
> Good: [f 0]x[+ 1]x[mod 10]
>
> Bad: [f ]
>       X
>      [+ 1]
>       X
>      [mod 10]
>
> The Miller's Crossing Dogma
> ---------------------------
>
> Crossing patchcords have to be avoided, unless this conflicts with The
> Left or Right Wing Dogma.
>
> The Trigger Dogma
> -----------------
>
> Only "a" and "b" are allowed in trigger objects.
>
> The Short Dogma
> ---------------
>
> "a" is better than "anything" (unless it conflicts with Left, Right or
> Crossing Dogma). "t" is better than "trigger". "t" is less of an object,
> and more of a patch cord. Sparse is better than dense.
>
> (Reasoning: Screen space is expensive. But more importantly: Pd is
> a graphical language, Pd patches aren't read word by word, but as as
> collection of object groups layed out in certain reoccuring patterns
> or idioms. [f 0]X[+ 1] is such an idiom. [float 0]X[+ 1] looks less
> familiar.)
>
> The Black and White Dogma
> -------------------------
>
> [cnv] is bad, "comment" is good.
>
> The Execution Order Dogma
> -------------------------
>
> Abstractions and subpatches have to fire right to left.
>
>
> Maybe I'll think up some more of these later.
>
> Ciao
> --
>  Frank Barknecht                 _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__
>
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