[PD] self-modifying and dynamic patching

Charles Henry czhenry at gmail.com
Sat Mar 14 15:05:21 CET 2009


On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Luke Iannini <lukexipd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, the better solution methinks would be a vanilla* "savebang" to
> clear out the dynamic subpatch just before save.  But I suppose that
> requires acknowledging dynamic patching.
>
> lxi
>
> *the [tot]-based method just does not work reliably

To mention programming languages, here (I wouldn't propose to open
this can of worms, but to look at the options for a more complete
programming style in Pd)

I think this makes sense from a programming languages point of view.
If you're creating a dynamic-based abstraction, it should be analogous
to writing a class.

There is a way to write the code for a "new" or "create" routine in
your class via [loadbang], so you need a way to code a "free" or
"delete" routine as well.

A selective-save feature would be a more pragmatic approach for Pd
users.  I think of data-structures in C, where you add a pointer in
your struct.  You can later dynamically allocate memory for an array
and set the pointer, but the structure itself does not include the
dynamically created array.  However, I think that coding a new method
would be expensive and problematic.

What set of operations is necessary to be able to create dynamic
patching capability?  Do you think there's a top-down design based
approach to outline the necessary principles for it?

Chuck




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