[PD] inlet names (bad?) practice?

[Claude Heiland-Allen]

On 02/03/2021 17:45, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote:
> > On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, 11:10:36 AM EST, Alexandre Torres Porres 
> <porres at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi, I was asking people on facebook where did they get the idea of 
> putting names in inlets/outlets, like: [inlet 
> this-inlet-controls-frequency].
>
> Not sure. But A_DEFSYM and A_DEFFLOAT are implemented in a way that 
> allows an arbitrary number of extra float/symbol arguments, so it 
> could be `[inlet this inlet controls frequency]`. Or following the 
> `[get]` and `[set]` pattern-- `[inlet - this inlet controls 
> frequency]` to skip over the first arg that is currently used for 
> up/downsampling.
>
> Someone asked on the Purr Data list about this. It would be easy to 
> implement, but it doesn't cover the case of setting a description for 
> the object itself. Plus I'd much rather just leverage the 
> documentation index in the GUI to look up tooltip data.
>
> -Jonathan
https://download.puredata.info/dev/InletDescriptions