[PD] should 'flags' always come first?

Christof Ressi info at christofressi.com
Mon Feb 28 00:56:18 CET 2022


On 28.02.2022 00:26, José de Abreu wrote:

> but on the other hand, pd also has the opposite case, where flags 
> comes in the end, they are on the text family objects, specifically 
> the [text sequence] object

[text sequence] is really an outlier. Typically, flags come *before* 
positional arguments, but *after* "methods", see [text define]. Here the 
flags come *after* the first (and only) positional argument. To add more 
to the confusion, there is a problem with the flag parsing: 
https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/1579

Christof






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