Jonathan Wilkes escribió:
The syntax you're talking about it extremely useful. Even though you can do the same thing with [send] by setting the send-name with the right inlet, that gets extremely cumbersome when, say, initializing a bunch of values and using dollar signs. The following is much easier: [; $1-pitch 60; $1-metro 96; $1-oscbank 32; $1-salad-bar optional (
I wasn't questioning its usefulness. I use that syntax daily and would feel lost without it (btw in my previous post I erroneously said it can't be replaced by anything, while as you say, it can but it is extremely cumbersome)
I just meant that its existence doesn't in any way answer to the need of a "send symbol". My ironic example was meant to demonstrate that asking for "a box that automatically sends what you type into it to a given target" is not the same as asking for "a box capable of sending messages to any given target".