[PD] Pd Manual

Jack jack at rybn.org
Tue Aug 11 19:54:29 CEST 2009


Le mardi 11 août 2009 à 13:24 -0400, Mathieu Bouchard a écrit :
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, good point.  The "connection order" statement should really be a 
> > footnote.  [trigger] should really be introduced before talking about 
> > the connection order.
> 
> I don't believe that any of those things should be introduced before or 
> after the other, nor that any of those things deserves to be but a 
> footnote in the other's text, or anything else like that.
> 
> There is a reason for the existence of [trigger], and it's not "for 
> triggering things" in any traditional meaning of the word in a way that is 
> contrastive with what any object not named [trigger] does... the meaning 
> of the word "triggering" in a pd context is conditioned by the existence 
> of the class-name [trigger] and not the other way around.
> 
> [trigger] has been created especially for ordering things in a way that a 
> fanout can't, that is, visually, explicitly, and unambiguously; thus 
> [trigger] and the very need for ordering go hand in hand.

Or, sometimes, it can be used to connect an outlet of an object to its
cold inlet. For example for a counter :
[1(
| [-1(
|/
[+ ]x[t f]
|
[print]

++

Jack


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