On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Now tell me, why do you like $# and $@ over [patcherargs] ?
Languages that provide arguments generally provide argc and argv. I think Pd should too. C, C++ has argc, argv Java has args.getLength, String[] args bourne shell has $#, $@ C shell has $#argv, $argv Perl has $#argv, @argv
It could be an object class called [args] too, no? (I don't like the name [patcherargs] because not all patchers have args nor a t_canvasenvironment).
PS: none of the above languages have [float_argument] ;-)
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