[PD] store a symbol and send on bang

[Dan Wilcox]

Mmm maybe I can simplify...

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Dan Wilcox
danomatika.com
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> On Dec 7, 2019, at 10:08 AM, Christof Ressi <christof.ressi at gmx.at> wrote:
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> If you change [value] to use a t_atom, why do you need to specify the type with a flag? Just add a symbol method and you're done. Am I missing something?
> 
>> Gesendet: Samstag, 07. Dezember 2019 um 03:01 Uhr
>> Von: "Dan Wilcox" <danomatika at gmail.com>
>> An: pd-list at lists.iem.at
>> Betreff: Re: [PD] store a symbol and send on bang
>> 
>> How about [value -s] instead? :)
>> 
>> I just whipped up a [value] update which changes the backing value storage to use a t_atom and allows setting the value type based on a flag: -s makes a symbol value, otherwise a float value. There are some checks against type mismatches between the same name.
>> 
>> This allows for sending & receiving symbols via [value -s] or [v -s] objects. Existing [value] and [v] objects are float types.
>> 
>> The only issue I can see, other than a little more memory usage and type checking, would be possibly breaking patches which use "-s" as a value name. In this case, sending a float to the inlet is silently ignored and a default "symbol" symbol would be output on a bang which would cause a trackable error.
>> 
>> I can put up a PR soon when I clean up this change a bit. In the meantime, macOS people can try out a test build: Pd-0.50.2-value-symbol.zip <http://docs.danomatika.com/pdbuilds/0.51/Pd-0.50.2-value-symbol.zip>
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>>> On Dec 6, 2019, at 5:50 PM, pd-list-request at lists.iem.at wrote:
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>>> Am 6. Dezember 2019 15:27:02 MEZ schrieb Christof Ressi <christof.ressi at gmx.at <mailto:christof.ressi at gmx.at>>:
>>>> This would just complicate the interface. Just use [symbol] + [send] and you're done.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> +1
>>> 
>>> also, [symbol -s] would make it quite complicated to create a symbol "-s"...
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> mfg.hft.fsl
>>> IOhannes
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