[Gridflow-dev] [#expr] (was: jMax)

[Jonathan Wilkes]

--- On Sat, 9/25/10, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:

> From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
> Subject: Re: [#expr] (was: jMax)
> To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> Cc: pd-list at iem.at, gridflow-dev at artengine.ca
> Date: Saturday, September 25, 2010, 3:07 PM
> On Sat, 25 Sep 2010, Jonathan Wilkes
> wrote:
> 
> > Hm, [expr a$0] works.
> 
> Yeah, but I'd use $0-a everywhere else. I'd like to be able
> to write 'a' for '$0-a', and I know that there isn't a
> standard for local-variables in Pd, but I'd like to pretend
> that there is one, and if I have to write a$0, there isn't
> one. Furthermore, when I write a$0, I'm probably trying to
> write a complicated formula and thus I'd rather not have $0
> in my face. I want to write 'a' for local variables, and if
> ever I want a global variable, I wouldn't mind writing '::a'
> for it, because local is the most common case by far.
> 
> So, how do you suggest that we do that ?

Seems like this is a bigger problem, because most of the time 
when I use send/receive, IEMGUIs, or [value] in an 
[expr]-less context I am also using $0-foo as the most common 
case.

So I think your reasoning for not wanting $0 "in your face" in 
a complex formula also extends quite naturally to Pd in general.  
Anytime I use [s $0-a] I'd rather write [s a] and have it be 
local by default.

-Jonathan



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