I am thinking it would be quite handy to be able to get the current version of Pd from in a patch. This would probably take the form of a
[version] object that returns the version when banged. The output could look like this:
i guess, you can write an external that does a gensym(pd_version) ...
i would love that! especially with things like [atan2] which make patches build with older versions of pd totally useless...
but maybe this is nothing that really requires an external ... maybe it's something, to be sent to the receive symbol 'pd', when it's banged ... (speaking in terms of programming languages, querying the state of the interpreter rather than a function call)
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