[PD] select issues

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 2, 2007, at 8:26 PM, Chris McCormick wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 07:32:31PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> wrote:
>> On Dec 1, 2007, at 9:17 PM, Chris McCormick wrote:
>>> If you change the behaviour of something as fundemental as [select]
>>> in pd-extended and it doesn't get changed in Pd, then the patches  
>>> and
>>> libraries I write under Pd won't work properly in pd-extended.
>>
>> That is well understood.  I have no plans to change [select] in an
>> incompatible way.  Frank clearly illustrated why the change discussed
>> would break things.
>
> Alright, I will stop freaking out then. :)
>

No cause for alarm, I am still (mostly) rational ;).  I have been  
thinking of making a library of objects for things like select,  
route, trigger, etc. that would all be very consistent in their  
behavior, and easier to understand in their type handling.  So far,  
it's just a vague idea, but discussions like these are very helpful  
to spur that thinking.

.hc


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