On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Yeah, good point. The "connection order" statement should really be a footnote. [trigger] should really be introduced before talking about the connection order.
I don't believe that any of those things should be introduced before or after the other, nor that any of those things deserves to be but a footnote in the other's text, or anything else like that.
There is a reason for the existence of [trigger], and it's not "for triggering things" in any traditional meaning of the word in a way that is contrastive with what any object not named [trigger] does... the meaning of the word "triggering" in a pd context is conditioned by the existence of the class-name [trigger] and not the other way around.
[trigger] has been created especially for ordering things in a way that a fanout can't, that is, visually, explicitly, and unambiguously; thus [trigger] and the very need for ordering go hand in hand.
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