How about "snake~ in" and "snake~ out" ... assuming a "snake" is easily enough understood as a multichannel audio cable?
Or tosnake~ / fromsnake~ or even snake~ and unsnake~ ? cheers M On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 09:02:33AM -0300, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote: > I actually do like pack~/unpack~ a lot, because they have control > counterparts and also MAX uses something similar but prepends 'mc.' to it, > so [mc.pack~] and [mc.unpack~] are exactly what [pack~] and [unpack~] do! > > On the other hand, if we really want to avoid this collision badly, maybe > we could use a similar convention to specify an object that is multichannel > aware, something quite new in the pd world. I'm not saying we should use > the same 'mc.' convention. I know using "." is not much common in the Pd > world, but in ELSE I use it and have plans to add many multichannel aware > externals that would make things simpler and while we don't have our > [clone] solution for internal and external objects, like a muti channel > [dac~] object called [dac.mc~]. I like it better that the mc comes later as > objects would be alphabetically next to their multichannel version. This > would also prevent people from thinking it's an external from Cyclone that > mimics the original. > > > So... what about [pack.mc~] and [unpack.mc~]? > > maybe just [packmc~] and [unpackmc~] as well... but I like "." > > cheers > > Em seg., 23 de jan. de 2023 às 06:38, Roman Haefeli <[email protected]> > escreveu: > > > On Mon, 2023-01-23 at 08:40 +0100, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: > > > > > > i would prefer this. > > > howe about the [split~]/[merge~] pair suggested by Jean-Yves? > > > > I think those are more descriptive names, regardless of the name > > collision problem. > > > > + 1 > > > > > in retrospect i wouldn't have named the zexy objects like i did, but > > > i > > > was young and needed the money. > > > > I don't think 'pack~' and 'unpack~' fit any less to what zexy's objects > > do. Like their non-tilde counterparts, they pack to lists und unpack > > from lists. I think those names are quite good. > > > > Roman > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pd-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev__;!!Mih3wA!FiLq_YDUBYda6b---jre9DEKXbAOKoHQN8RElivzd1cjtYcN1BN4iAg_OvfczMaP7N7QraScCw$ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev__;!!Mih3wA!FiLq_YDUBYda6b---jre9DEKXbAOKoHQN8RElivzd1cjtYcN1BN4iAg_OvfczMaP7N7QraScCw$ > _______________________________________________ Pd-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
