[PD] pure-pd default creation argument mechanism

[Damian Stewart]

Damian Stewart wrote:
> IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> 
>> ihaven't read your entire mail (due to lack of time), but how does this 
>> relate to the "empty creation argument" thread 
>> (http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2008-10/065479.html)
>> and the solution i posted there?
> 
> sir, you're genius. thank you.


hmm. actually, this isn't doing what i thought it was..

i don't really understand how it's working. what i want is an abstraction 
that is able to determine whether a given $-argument in its _parent_ is 
specified or not. at the moment, [d-default] works in such a way that i can 
go [d-default $2 50], and if $2 in the current-level patch (ie the parent 
of this instance of [d-default] is not specified, it will output 50.

can you explain the [1(-[makefilename $%d-test] voodoo? my intuition is 
that [makefilename] ought to outlet '$1-test', but according to [print] 
it's actually outputting \\$1-test, which looks like some kind of funky 
escape sequence... over my head in any case.

cheers
d

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