----- Original Message ----- > From: IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoel...@iem.at> > To: pd-list@iem.at > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 2:09 PM > Subject: Re: [PD] specifying time > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2012-02-15 19:49, Andy Farnell wrote: >> Yes, blocks and samples would be great too. >> >> The advantage of having a symbol qualifier in a message >> as opposed to creation arguments of the object is that >> [line~] etc could respond to mixed messages with different units. >> > > i think (iirc max correctly), miller meant an additional argument to the > message rather than an additional creation argument to the object.
Right, that's how I understood it, too. > > e.g. [0, 1 12 s( could ramp in 12secs, wherease [1, 0 12 d( would take > considerably longer. > > this is way easier to parse and i believe more foolproof than making an > automagic parser that would make [12h(->[f]->[print] output > "4.32e+07" > rather than an error, which it really was because i accidentally hit > "h" > when trying to type 12. What if I accidentally hit " h", or "1337"? Also, it's way easier to parse because you're comparing apples to oranges. If you only want the ability to specify one unit at a time then it's trivial to parse 12s. Automagic also means "you don't have to code a solution for every single class, including externals, that uses floats to mean milliseconds." -Jonathan > > fgmasr > IOhannes > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAk88AwEACgkQkX2Xpv6ydvTlTwCg8s7sfi17IerT1IY1oEVgE+24 > AysAoNoVxigeyxl9X5k5hpBztlDrm7um > =lDhe > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
