Max (I think) had the suggestion of using established audio tech terms -> 
[snake~] and [breakout~] where "breakout" refers to a breakout box from a 
physical audio snake. It might translate a bit better than a non-word like 
"unsnake" ?

You could take it further to [breakin~] / [breakout~] but I don't believe 
"breakin" is really used in the audio context, at least the part hat I deal 
with.

For a single channel, [tap~] makes conceptual sense to me but then this is 
perhaps a different (water) metaphor?

No matter what is chosen, it's nice to go through the options a this is one of 
these parts of the API that can't be (easily) changed later on. For my own 
projects, I offend agonize over the naming at the beginning.

> On Jan 25, 2023, at 7:53 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 20:48:52 -0800
> From: Miller Puckette <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> To: Christof Ressi <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Cc: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [PD-dev] pack~/unpack~ (was Re: multichannel signals,
>       preliminary support)
> Message-ID: <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> 
> OK... now I'm hesitating between "snake~ in", "snake~ out" and "snake~ tap"
> or "join~", "split~", and "tap~"...
> 
> Former is more colorful (and crowds the namespace less).  Latter might be
> easier for non-native English speakers to deal with?
> 
> cheers
> Miller

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