[PD] [Öffnen],feature request: [get] and [set] template-agnostic?
Christof Ressi
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Sat Dec 4 16:20:14 CET 2021
> not sure if this was discussed before: would it make sense for [get],
> [set] and other pointer-related objects to be template agnostic?
This is already possible. You can use "-" as a template wildcard. This
is documented for [set], [get], [element], [setsize] and [getsize].
For some reason, this doesn't work with [append]. I have opened an issue
on GitHub: https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/1506
Christof
On 04.12.2021 16:01, João Pais wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> not sure if this was discussed before: would it make sense for [get],
> [set] and other pointer-related objects to be template agnostic? That
> means that an object [get mytemplate x y] wouldn't need the
> "mytemplate" argument, and it would get the fields from any pointer it
> receives.
>
> This would allow to simplify the programming in some cases. The way it
> is now, it needs lots of duplicated code when getting elements from
> different struct templates.
>
> Best,
>
> Joao
>
>
>
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