> On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, 2:11:36 PM EST, Alexandre Torres Porres 
> <por...@gmail.com> wrote: 
 > The idea doesn't sound bad, it'd be a nice GUI feature. As for the design, I 
 > think you'd need a special flag to set the name and not just some symbol, 
 > this way you'd not get into conflicts with the actual arguments.
I have no plans to implement it that way, and the tooltip implementation we 
wrote in 
Pd-l2ork 1.0 draws directly from the help patches for its tooltip data.
However, if it turns out that a sizable number of users are abusing 
inlet(~)/outlet(~) args that way and they really want it displayed in the 
tooltip, I'll revisit it.
-Jonathan

> Well, anyway, someone started abusing the fact that the object doesn't 
> complain about invalid arguments and now I can only see this as a bad 
> practice indeed. I like to joke that Pd will not complain if you create [osc~ 
> 440 hz (cycles per second)], but that doesn't mean you should do it :) 
  
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