[PD] ipoke~ ?

[Jonathan Wilkes]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Roman Haefeli <reduzent at gmail.com>
> To: pd-list at iem.at
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> Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 4:26 AM
> Subject: Re: [PD] ipoke~ ?
> 
> On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 09:53 +0200, Jeppi Jeppi wrote:
>>  Hey,
>>  I wonder whether there is something similar to Max' ipoke~ (an
>>  interpolating buffer~ writer) for Pd. I should need it for some
>>  physical modelling and resampling stuff. Otherwise, I could implement
>>  it myself. It seems only interpolated reading is available (tabread4~
>>  and similar ones), not writing.
> 
> This somehow reminds of the thread about settable [receive].

Whether or not the user who started the settable [receive] thread really 
needed a settable receive, there are situations where it's needed, like 
wrapping s/r in abstractions so that I don't have to prepend a $0- which, 
in 95% of cases is what I want, and using a 2nd arg for setting scope for 
the other 5% of situations.  There, not having a 
settable receive leads to hacky solutions like dynamic-patching or 
feeding a message-box with a semicolon, the receive-symbol, and 
the message (which also requires a hack to get "list foo" to remain 
"list foo" when it comes out).  Both of those solutions are obscure and 
way more error-prone than simply sending a symbol to an inlet.

And the historical replies to a user wanting a settable receive of "why do 
you want to do that" are misleading, because the real question was 
"why do you want to do that when there's a long-standing bug-- even in 
all the iemguis-- that may cause a crash by doing that?"

Anyway, Ivica apparently has fixed the issue.

-Jonathan

> Is there
> really a need for the ability to do interpolated writing? Conceptually,
> is there any restriction if it is lacking? Can't everything that employs
> interpolated writing be achieved with interpolated reading as well?
> 
> Maybe I'm not thinking hard enough...
> 
> Roman
> 
> 
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