Hallo, Roman Haefeli hat gesagt: // Roman Haefeli wrote:
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 10:03 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:
- But first a cleanup of the ugly patchcord mess is necessary to comply with the "footils.org readability dogma 2.0"
url, please! i'd really like to read it, but google didn't give me any results, neither did a search for 'readability' or 'dogma' on footils.org.
Sorry, that actually was just a joke: there is no written dogma. ;)
However if you look for example at my [list]-abs objects: They are dogma compatible as far as I see.
Maybe I should make one up now:
The Left Wing Dogma
Patchcords must be "left-aligned": cords leaving a left outlet or entering a left inlet must be strictly vertical.
The Right Wing Dogma
Idiomatic or pattern-like constructs like counters however should grow to the right and not to the bottom:
Good: [f 0]x[+ 1]x[mod 10]
Bad: [f ] X [+ 1] X [mod 10]
The Miller's Crossing Dogma
Crossing patchcords have to be avoided, unless this conflicts with The Left or Right Wing Dogma.
The Trigger Dogma
Only "a" and "b" are allowed in trigger objects.
The Short Dogma
"a" is better than "anything" (unless it conflicts with Left, Right or Crossing Dogma). "t" is better than "trigger". "t" is less of an object, and more of a patch cord. Sparse is better than dense.
(Reasoning: Screen space is expensive. But more importantly: Pd is a graphical language, Pd patches aren't read word by word, but as as collection of object groups layed out in certain reoccuring patterns or idioms. [f 0]X[+ 1] is such an idiom. [float 0]X[+ 1] looks less familiar.)
The Black and White Dogma
[cnv] is bad, "comment" is good.
The Execution Order Dogma
Abstractions and subpatches have to fire right to left.
Maybe I'll think up some more of these later.
Ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__