Hallo, Damian Stewart hat gesagt: // Damian Stewart wrote:
personally i find sends and receives to be a mixed blessing. on the one hand they get rid of unnecessary patch cords, but on the other hand they make it much less clear to see what's going on with the execution order. (what happens to the execution order when you do a message send/receive, anyway?
Nothing. The execution order is not affected by sends and receives.
I didn't change that much actually: I only introduced three or four sends like for current position and for the new value, also I changed the backwards stop connections into a send "$0-stop". But of course it's confusing for you now as you've been into the old version a lot deeper that I was. I also replaced many fanning connections because they make me nervous. ;) I also left-aligned almost everything for clarity.
Normally I like it if there are lots of verbosely named subpatches when dealing with a complicated algorithm, i.e.:
[pd initialize] | [pd increment-timetag] | [pd send-new-x-value] | [pd loop-backwards-through-arrays] | [pd check-for-old-value] | [pd insert-sorted] | [pd output-median]
I wanted to make the patch clearer by separating stuff into more subpatches like this, but then I broke it. :(
Ciao
Frank