> The idea doesn't sound bad, it'd be a nice GUI feature. As for the design, I think you'd need a special flag to set the name and not just some symbol, this way you'd not get into conflicts with the actual arguments.

I have no plans to implement it that way, and the tooltip implementation we wrote in

Pd-l2ork 1.0 draws directly from the help patches for its tooltip data.

However, if it turns out that a sizable number of users are abusing inlet(~)/outlet(~) args that way and they really want it displayed in the tooltip, I'll revisit it.

-Jonathan

> Well, anyway, someone started abusing the fact that the object doesn't complain about invalid arguments and now I can only see this as a bad practice indeed. I like to joke that Pd will not complain if you create [osc~ 440 hz (cycles per second)], but that doesn't mean you should do it :)