On Aug 12, 2009, at 6:22 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
--- On Wed, 8/12/09, Mathieu Bouchard <ma...@artengine.ca> wrote:
Actually, "selector" would be the most sensible column name
for the column that lists "the accepted messages"...
It would, but there currently aren't column names in the pddp
template.
Are you looking at a different template than the one for [float] in
pd-ext?
I'm not looking at a template, why?
Hmm...I don't think these more general terms require definitions,
because they are superficially describing what one types to produce
the desired behavior.
I don't think that it's a good idea to directly connect "what you
type" with "what you get", except in examples. The theory should
connect "what you type" with an internal representation, and connect
the internal representation with "what you get", or any other number
of intermediate steps, whatever is needed to make people distinguish
between "a symbol" and "the spelling out of a symbol by a user" and
"the printing out of the symbol by pd" and other things.
It's more obvious (and more critical) if you think of the float
situation.
There's an implicit step when the term "message" is used (i.e.,
typing something in a message box and sending it to the object).
But if you look at the Max docs where they say, "the word 'set'
followed by a number", there's not even that.
And so... how are the Max docs related to how Pd should be
documented?...
They are widely regarded and good to learn from, and Pd is part of the
Max family.
.hc
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