[PD] 2 bugs and a feature request, FYI

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

On 3/5/21 6:29 AM, William Huston wrote:
> FYI, BH
> 
>     - *"pd -help" produces no output, version 0.51-4 / Win7 #1280*
>     https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/1280

this issue has been resolved and closed.
it's a limitation of Windows' `cmd`.exe .

if you want to change it, i suggest filing a feature-request/bug-report 
with microsoft :-)

>     - *tabwrite should act sensibly upon out of bound address #1281*
>     https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/1281

as explained in the issue, this is by design.
if you hate it, just use [moses] to filter out the out-of-bound indices.

>     - *Feature Request: allow a [clone] instance to know the total number of
>     instances #1279*
>     https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/1279

i was under the impression, that in the end everybody agreed that this 
feature doesn't buy us anything.

[clone -n foo 20] takes the same number of chars as [clone foo 20 20] 
and needs more brain power to parse ("what was that '-n' flag for again?").
the other solutions require much extra work both for the implementation 
of the feature and for using it, making it more likely to introduce bugs.

so i don't see a point.


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IOhannes