Exactly. I'll often use one (or its signal equivalent [*~ 1]) as an anchor point or temprorary placeholder for something with a large in/out degree but undecided function. Like a way to 'hang on' to a bunch of connections in working memory. Hubs often represent points that will either break out (become outlets to a parent) or become subpatches. Having an object already there means its name can be replaced by [outlet] or [pd newfunction] without remaking those cords.
Since they look rather ugly and sick out like a sore thumb, they are easily cleaned up at the end.
I've often wondered is there any penalty overhead if you leave a few lying around? I assume its negligable.
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:39:15 -0400 (EDT) Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca wrote:
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
Yes, I forgot about the hub. There's that, too. But if you have a [t a] with one wire in and one wire out then chances are you ought to have used a segmented wire. But those aren't available, so you use [t a], and in these cases I give it a minus one.
Not necessarily... when I have a [t a] with a single wire on each side, chances are that it's a past hub or a future hub or both.
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