On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hm, but mostly there is, at least "kind of": The hot left-most inlet
corresponds to the right-to-left triggering of many objects.
Yeah, but I was mostly commenting on internal structure of pd. "sending to
the left inlet" means the same as "sending to the object itself"; whereas
there does not exist a "sending from the object itself" that is equivalent
to sending through a certain outlet, although you can send messages
without any outlet, just like what [s] and semicolon messageboxes do, but
that's another thing.
It's likely because of the nice symmetry in the following common idiom
to get inter-onset intervals:
[t b b]
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[timer]
[timer] (and its relatives to some extent) is an object that is used
in a hot-to-cold fashion more often than in the cold-to-hot direction
common with most other objects like [pack] etc.
What's the problem with just having crossing wires and consistent
semantics? Crossing wires have to happen all of the time anyway.
I think that what you claim is a common idiom for [timer] is more than
correct, as it would only output 0 if plugged the other way, but for
[cputime] and [realtime]... I can very well imagine making plenty of them
cross-wired, meaning what would've been straight-wired if those objects
were more normal.
I think that this special inlet ordering does more harm than good.
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