Hi, documentation says you do need 2 symbols when using the '-s' flag, so it's a bug in your patch. Also, there's a [pd data-structures] subpatch with examples on how to use this flag, so I don't think there is a lack of information on the help file (same is true for [text]).

I wonder what Pd version or fork you have.

cheers

Em seg., 20 de mai. de 2024 às 13:55, Alexandre Torres Porres <porres@gmail.com> escreveu:

Em sex., 17 de mai. de 2024 às 10:17, oliver <oliver@klingt.org> escreveu:

the "pointer" method for [array] objects is hardly documented and actually 

seems to be not working at all.

While said method works fine for [text], i have to say that [text]'s
help patches would also benefit from a demonstration of that feature.

Ok, I can improve help files, can you open an issue for we to discuss it in https://github.com/pure-data/pddp ? It is still vague how you want this improved

 

In my attached example, i was working on a simple vanilla-based
binary-to-digital converter and i wanted to use [array sum] as a
handmade [accum] object. While the "naming" method with array obviously
works, the "pointer" method either doesn't or i don't understand it.

I see errors printed on your patch, don't you?

array set: unknown flag ...
 -s
array sum: unknown flag ...
 -s

maybe this is a bug loading flags in [array], I will look more carefully.

cheers