[PD] packed floats to select object changes the select value

Roman Haefeli reduzent at gmail.com
Tue Sep 22 09:37:07 CEST 2020



On Mon, 2020-09-21 at 17:16 +0800, Matt Davey wrote:
> I am aware of the workarounds, and have put one in place to fix this
> now. 
> 
> That's not the issue here.  The issue is that accidentally sending a
> list to the select object invisibly changes its behaviour and can
> produce some hard to find bugs in big patches.

I don't quite see why you are singling out [select]. To my knowledge,
all control objects distribute incoming lists across there inlets.
There is nothing special in [select] here. Also, it's pretty common in
Pd that you can override creation arguments without the visual
representation not reflect it. Personally, I find this discussion moot.
 
> There are lots of other objects where this could happen, but [sel] is
> somewhat unique in that it won't output incorrect values to its main
> outlet but rather just stops sending bangs and sends to its second
> outlet.  

Especially with [select], it's hard to check its internal state. Maybe
a possibility for introspection is lacking here? A new 'introspect'
method, that would print the current state to the console?

Roman
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