Damian Stewart wrote:
IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
ihaven't read your entire mail (due to lack of time), but how does this relate to the "empty creation argument" thread (http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2008-10/065479.html) and the solution i posted there?
sir, you're genius. thank you.
hmm. actually, this isn't doing what i thought it was..
i don't really understand how it's working. what i want is an abstraction that is able to determine whether a given $-argument in its _parent_ is specified or not. at the moment, [d-default] works in such a way that i can go [d-default $2 50], and if $2 in the current-level patch (ie the parent of this instance of [d-default] is not specified, it will output 50.
can you explain the [1(-[makefilename $%d-test] voodoo? my intuition is that [makefilename] ought to outlet '$1-test', but according to [print] it's actually outputting \$1-test, which looks like some kind of funky escape sequence... over my head in any case.
cheers d