[PD] '$0' in messages again, another proposal?

Christof Ressi info at christofressi.com
Thu Dec 2 23:34:17 CET 2021


Personally, I often use $0 in large "initializer" message boxes:

[;$0-foo 10

;$0-bar 50

;$0-baz 10

etc.(

I like this better than creating dozens of individual [s] objects. The 
workaround is to use $1 instead and pass the $0 from a [float] object, 
but yeah...

It's also an issue when I want to create a message like this:

[read media/$1-$2.wav $0-buf-l $0-buf-r(

I basically have to append $0 to the incoming list and offset all 
dollars by 1:

[read media/$2-$3.wav $0-buf-l $1-buf-r(

It's just unnecessary mental overhead.

Of course, I could do this instead:

[list append read media/$1-$2.wav $0-buf-l $0-buf-r] -> [list trim]

But I find this ugly and unnecessary.

>> Whenever we need "$0" for a send name, 
>
> then i tyically use [send $0-foo], where there's no msgbox involved at 
> all. 
The message box syntax is often more convenient:

[;$0-array const $1(

Of course, I could just as well write

[const $1( -> [s $0-array]

but people are lazy :-)

---

IMO it is a real pain point. Otherwise this topic wouldn't come up again 
and again...

Christof

On 02.12.2021 23:09, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
> On 12/2/21 18:35, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
>> Em qui., 2 de dez. de 2021 às 13:19, Ico Bukvic <ico at vt.edu> escreveu:
>>
>>>   although the use cases of $0 inside a message remain relatively 
>>> sparse.
>>>
>>
>> I say it's very common. 
>
> that's funny.
> from my perspective (and i don't know anything, really) it *seems* 
> that ico is speaking from the POV of someone who has been working with 
> msgboxes that expand $0 for some time, whereas alex is mostly talking 
> from a "wishlist" perspective.
>
> as such i find it intersting that the two of you come to radically 
> different conclusions about how *actually* useful that feature really is.
>
>> Whenever we need "$0" for a send name, 
>
> then i tyically use [send $0-foo], where there's no msgbox involved at 
> all.
>
>
>> a table name
>
> then i tyically use [array define $0-foo], where there's no msgbox 
> involved at all.
>
>
>> or using messages as sends ;)
> ah indeed. [; $0-foo init(
>
> can't say i miss this much (but ymmv).
>
>
> the *only* reason why i ever wanted to use $0 in a msgbox is for 
> interacting with [soundfiler].
>
>
> fmsd
> IOhannes
>
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