Here's something that I'd like to propose for the style guide, based
on my teaching experience:
- use [send foo] instead of [; foo( for all sends that aren't
dynamically set
A lot of people find the [; foo( syntax confusing, and since it is
commonly used, it often gets in the way of newbies understanding the
patch. While the [; foo( syntax is definitely useful for dynamic
sends, I don't think there is an advantage to using for the regular
sends. So for example:
[dsp 1(
|
[send pd]
instead of
|; /
|pd dsp 1 \
This change highlights the dataflow aspect of the messages over the
text-style programming with syntax of the message box. At the very
least, I think that the help patches should use this style, and I have
started to use this style in my regular programming and it feels quite
natural once you are used to it. I find it easier to read.
(as for [s foo] versus [send foo] that's an issue I want to avoid in
this discussion).
.hc
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