[PD] [clone]'s instance number

[Ivica Bukvic]

What about having an if statement that detects clone object and if so,
compensates for $2 discrepancy and assigns $1 to it instead and increments
from there? This way the discrepancy is internalized as opposed to
something user needs to deal with.

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On May 11, 2016 11:50, "Miller Puckette" <msp at ucsd.edu> wrote:

> I gave this some thought but couldn't come up with anything more natural
> than
> the "$1" idea.  It allows for changing the other arguments more easily than
> it would have been if the instance number were passed last.  Also, somehow
> it felt more natural to have the instance number first.
>
> If there's interest in the idea, I could add arrguments to change the
> behavior (such as putting $1 last instead of first)...  Offhand I doubt
> that
> would get used much though.
>
> cheers
> Miller
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 05:26:21PM +0200, Christof Ressi wrote:
> > There's also a pitfall: additional creation arguments for the cloned
> abstraction will start with $2.
> > For example, in [clone 16 my-abstraction 1 5 9] '1' will be parsed as
> $2, '5' as $3, '9' as $4 etc.
> > No problem, if the abstraction was written for being used with [clone],
> but bad when cloning existing abstractions.
> >
> > I'm wondering if there could be a way to get the abstraction ID without
> messing up existing abstractions... Maybe have a dedicated object?
> >
> > For now, I think it's important to mention the parsing of additional
> creation arguments in the help file.
> >
> > Christof
> >
> > > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. Mai 2016 um 16:25 Uhr
> > > Von: "IOhannes m zmoelnig" <zmoelnig at iem.at>
> > > An: pd-list at lists.iem.at
> > > Betreff: Re: [PD] [clone]'s instance number
> > >
> > > On 2016-05-11 16:18, Liam Goodacre wrote:
> > > > Would it be possible to access [clone]'s unique instance number from
> within the patch, a bit like a creation argument? This could be used to
> achieve differentiation between the abstractions, ie. if the abstraction
> contains "tabread4~ $-1.array" and the $-1 is replaced with the instance
> number, then each instance could read a different file. Of course there are
> other ways of doing this, but it would be neat to do it with clone, and I'm
> wondering if there's a way.
> > >
> > >
> > > isn't this what $1 is already doing in clone's instances?
> > >
> > >
> > > fgasdmr
> > > IOhannes
> > >
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