On Nov 25, 2009, at 1:50 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo,
Roman Haefeli hat gesagt: // Roman Haefeli wrote:
I wonder, what makes one any smarter. It doesn't make you any
smarter, when
knowing about all the underlying mechanisms and special cases of
Pd, it only
makes you know more. However, it *would* you make smarter, if you
would be
able to apply your current experiences on new cases, that you haven't
experienced before, for instance: you found, that [route] strips the
selector off the message 'list one two' and 'hallo velo', so that
you would
naturally assume, that [route] would strip off any selector.
However, it
doesn't, which makes you have to learn every single case separately.
Of course you have to learn every single object behaviour
separately! There's
no way around it. [prepend] in Cyclone is different from [list
prepend], and
that's by design, not a bug (as symbol-selector handling in [route]
might be).
But to be able to understand what makes them different, you have to
understand
at least a little bit about the anatomy of Pd's messages and ideally
even how
messages with different selectors call different methods of a Pd
object.
Explaing this makes you smarter. And then being smarter can help
with the
tedious task of memorizing object behaviours (or knowing when to
look them up).
Or it will make you add a [list trim] in front of most [route]
objects. (Btw.:
all_about_data_types.pd doesn't have a single [list trim] inside ...)
Add something about [list trim]. :) all_about_data_types is older
than than the list object.
.hc
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