Hi Chuckk,
less rich text format pls. it triplicates the time it takes to receive your messages.
kthx
./d5
On Mar 15, 2006, at 6:31 AM, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
From: IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig@iem.at Subject: Re: [Pd] Feature request: simultaneous connections To: Jo?o Miguel Pais < jmmmpais@googlemail.com> Cc: PD-List < pd-list@iem.at> Message-ID: <4417CFFE.20702@iem.at > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15
João Miguel Pais wrote:
... and then people will complain that their patches do strange
things
because they created fanning-connections with undefined execution order instead of properly using the trigger-object.
I don't think it's a good idea to encourage outlet-fanning with a keyboard shortcut.
you don't need trigger for all occasions. sometimes it doesn't
matter
in which order the messages are sent, only that they arrive - like
in
come cases where building a spider web is necessary because of
lots of
this is true, but it is a special case where the programmer has to
know
that the order does not matter. it is a bad design for a programming language, if it tends to create programs that behave "somehow".
I guess I agree, for connecting one outlet to multiple inlets, but I still see no problem with being able to connect multiple outlets to one inlet. -Chuckk
But it's also not that bad to let people make mistakes. Then they'll learn quite faster.
allowing people to make mistakes is something different than helping (enforcing) people to make mistakes. the former could be considered as some (weird) form of education,
while
the latter is just offending.
mfg.asdr. IOhannes _______________________________________________
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