[PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature?

[João Pais]

>> why complicated metadata if you can already do [inlet~ channel1] and
>> [outlet activity] in an abstraction/subpatch? afaik arguments to those
>> objects currently are ignored, but i do use them sometimes to make me
>> remember their function.
>
> $1 $2 and $3 of [inlet~] and [outlet~] are already reserved for the
> resampling feature (specific to DSP). This feature was introduced a few
> years after the inlet-tooltip feature was introduced.

you mean like a block~/switch~ object? never heard of those features  
before (I don't follow up all changelogs, so if it's not documented, I  
don't know it).