[PD] Need Help Understanding pack

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

yeah, I always thought that trigger should show the flow with a little  
line drawing.

.hc

On Feb 9, 2011, at 12:03 PM, András Murányi wrote:

> I had a friend who time to time had to call people on the phone and  
> have them explain where is right and where is left, and then she  
> soon forgot it again. It's not a brain damage, but a neurological  
> thing.
> I suggest that [trigger] help feature an image of an arrow (<---) to  
> reinforce the idea of "right to left".
>
> Andras
>
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Phil Stone <pkstone at ucdavis.edu>  
> wrote:
> Happens to me all the time -- I have to point when I'm a passenger  
> giving directions to a driver -- I usually say the wrong one first.
>
> I thought it was because I'm left-handed (or slightly brain-damaged).
>
>
> Phil
>
>
> On 2/9/11 1:16 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 08:52:50AM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Again, left-alignement helps thinking about and reading patches. See  
> the
> subpatch for a solution without pipe - and without triggers as well.  
> [trigger]
> is important, but only when objects don't have enough outlets  
> themselves.
> [unpack 0 0 0] already has three outlets that, just like [t f f f]  
> fire from
> left to right, so triggering explicitly is not needed.
> Oops. Please invert: "just like [t f f f] fires from right to left".
>
> 71 of 364 (19.5%) college professors and 311 of 1185 (26.2%) college  
> students
> said that they occasionally, frequently or all of the time had  
> difficulty when
> they had to quickly identify right from left.
> References:
>
>     1. Brandt, J. and Mackavey, W. Left-right confusion and the  
> perception of
>     bilateral symmetry. International Journal of Neuroscience,  
> 12:87-94, 1981.
>
>     2. Hannay, H.J., Ciaccia, P.J., Kerr, J.W. and Barrett, D. Self- 
> report of
>     right-left confusion in college men and women. Perceptual and  
> Motor Skills,
>     70:451-457, 1990.
>
>     3. Harris, L.J., Gitterman, S.R. University professors' self- 
> descriptions
>     of left-right confusability: sex and handedness differences.  
> Perceptual and
>     Motor Skills, 47:819-823, 1978.
>
> http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/java/hands1.html
>
> Ciao
>
>
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