On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 16:01 +0000, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > Wrt #N struct: > > > Data structures have three components: drawing commands, [struct] > templates, and > scalars. They can get loaded in any order in a running instance of > Pd. Also, [struct] > templates can depend on other [struct] templates. > > > Polluting the parent with structs found inside the children guarantees > that everything > will load with the correct data and display properly every time, > without crashing. > Unfortunately this adds complexity to data structures. You now have > this "shadow" > struct floating around that has no fields associated with it (which > itself can cause > crashes).
Can it? > But doing it the "right way" probably involves something like higher > order > functions, or promises, or something else that is overkill for a > feature that apparently > only two people in the community use. I see. Thanks for the explanation. Roman
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