On 06/05/2015 04:24 AM, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote:
If I have a choice to debug a recursive (control) object chain using my toolkit vs. your toolkit, I'll choose mine.
totally. i very much prefer your toolkit as well, as it allows me to blindly answer the question "why is my patch behaving weirdly?" with a "there's a fanout that makes your patch do something that you cannot see by tracking the connections", and i get another 20+ points on stackoverflow (and probably another 10- points for becoming an unbearable evangelist)
the above paragraph contains a key element that i (try to) teach my students when it comes to understanding how a given patch works: take your finger and visually track how the messages travel through all the connections in a depth-first order. i found that this only works when you have (dogmatic or not) triggers.
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