[PD] can a [clone] instance determine the total number of clones?

[IOhannes m zmölnig]

On 3/3/21 9:34 PM, Christof Ressi wrote:
> Yes, [clone foo 20 20] might look ugly,

well.
otoh it looks quite elegant inside the cloned abstraction:
$1 - id of current instance
$2 - number of instances
$3... - other args

i can't think of an interface to get the total number of instances 
inside the abstraction that is not much, much uglier.

somethiung like

[clones(
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[pdcontrol]
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:facepalm:

gfmards
IOhannes

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