Hah, great that this feature exists already! I'm happy using $1 and renumbering other creation arguments accordingly. Putting at the end would seem a little confusing, since it would be a different number each time.
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 08:49:54 -0700 From: msp@ucsd.edu To: christof.ressi@gmx.at CC: pd-list@lists.iem.at; zmoelnig@iem.at Subject: Re: [PD] [clone]'s instance number
I gave this some thought but couldn't come up with anything more natural than the "$1" idea. It allows for changing the other arguments more easily than it would have been if the instance number were passed last. Also, somehow it felt more natural to have the instance number first.
If there's interest in the idea, I could add arrguments to change the behavior (such as putting $1 last instead of first)... Offhand I doubt that would get used much though.
cheers Miller
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 05:26:21PM +0200, Christof Ressi wrote:
There's also a pitfall: additional creation arguments for the cloned abstraction will start with $2. For example, in [clone 16 my-abstraction 1 5 9] '1' will be parsed as $2, '5' as $3, '9' as $4 etc. No problem, if the abstraction was written for being used with [clone], but bad when cloning existing abstractions.
I'm wondering if there could be a way to get the abstraction ID without messing up existing abstractions... Maybe have a dedicated object?
For now, I think it's important to mention the parsing of additional creation arguments in the help file.
Christof
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. Mai 2016 um 16:25 Uhr Von: "IOhannes m zmoelnig" zmoelnig@iem.at An: pd-list@lists.iem.at Betreff: Re: [PD] [clone]'s instance number
On 2016-05-11 16:18, Liam Goodacre wrote:
Would it be possible to access [clone]'s unique instance number from within the patch, a bit like a creation argument? This could be used to achieve differentiation between the abstractions, ie. if the abstraction contains "tabread4~ $-1.array" and the $-1 is replaced with the instance number, then each instance could read a different file. Of course there are other ways of doing this, but it would be neat to do it with clone, and I'm wondering if there's a way.
isn't this what $1 is already doing in clone's instances?
fgasdmr IOhannes
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