Hi,
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 12:26:07PM -0400, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
intuitiveness, aliens, whatever. Another consideration within the pd* ecosystem is that it is 0-centric, meaning things tend to start with $0 (patch instance) before they get to $1. Then again, $1 refers to the first arg, so you could argue it may be inconsistent... etc. etc. etc.
I always assumed Pd to be rather 1-centric and not 0-centric: There is no $0 for message boxes, and where abstraction arguments are concerned, $0 (patch instance) in use is really something entirely different from $1...$n (arguments to an instance given by user).
Also many (most?) command line arguments like -audiodev refer to the first item in a list with 1 instead of 0, leading to an interesting confustion when they have meet with the 0-centric outside world like ALSA's device numbering.
So Pd in my view is more similar to Lua, where numbering generally starts at 1 (which actually works well, once you get used to it).
But in the end, it's
Ciao
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