On Sep 15, 2008, at 3:41 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
well, yes and now. as said above, there is always the fallback thing. having [import mrpeach] without a "mrpeach" directory will (at the worst) give you a warning (or error?). nevertheless Pd will still
findjust to re-stress this: an error does not always make your patch
unusable! i have done plenty of patches that happily lived witherrors (while
ugly, they were expected)to remove the ugliness, it would be nice to have a (built in!) way to "try" instantiating an object. like [try { import mrpeach } catch {}]
(with the catch-clause defining an alternative object to be
instantiated)mgasdr IOhannes
Interesting idea, ideally it would be done without adding new
syntax. Perhaps if you were able to test if an object can be
instantiated, then you could use that info to dynamically patch
things depending on the setup.
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