On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 10:06 AM IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig@iem.at> wrote:

>     - *tabwrite should act sensibly upon out of bound address #1281*
>     https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/1281

as explained in the issue, this is by design.
if you hate it, just use [moses] to filter out the out-of-bound indices.

It seems quite unexpected behavior, but yes I can do range checking.
And agree w/Alex this behavior should be documented.
 

>     - *Feature Request: allow a [clone] instance to know the total number of
>     instances #1279*
>     https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/1279

i was under the impression, that in the end everybody agreed that this
feature doesn't buy us anything.

Well, I don't think everyone did agree.
 
[clone -n foo 20] takes the same number of chars as [clone foo 20 20]
and needs more brain power to parse ("what was that '-n' flag for again?").
the other solutions require much extra work both for the implementation
of the feature and for using it, making it more likely to introduce bugs.

Well, I understand. But maybe there is a simple solution no one has dreamed up.
I'd prefer to leave this one open, but the wrapper solution proposed by (??)
seems like that may work for my purposes.

BH