On Mar 20, 2009, at 1:34 PM, Matt Barber wrote:
hmm.. generally this could be a good idea, but message sending is
most useful
when initialising a number of receives ie:
[loadbang]
|
|; init-1 6 /
|; init-2 symbol foo |
|; init-3 -2 \
which is far more elegant than the the trigger/send replacement,
especially
with more fields..
i think its important for students to recognise that this feature
of messaging
has a role to play, rather than trying to veil its use. in my
experience
people will tend to use [send foo] more often when they start pd,
then begin
abbreviating to [s foo] before they appreciate the msg shorthand [;
foo[. but
you are right it is a little confusing for new users..
Also note that some objects, e.g. [qlist], positively depend on the
message sending style. My students who wanted to use them have often
wondered why we hadn't covered the two ways of sending more in depth.
Can you explain with an example? I don't understand why you must use
message boxes semi-colons for [qlist]. The [qlist] help patch
doesn't have any message boxes with semi-colons, for example.
.hc
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