On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
Second of all, the next paragraph talks about infinite loops; [trigger]
isn't addressed until the following section, momentarily making it seem
as if "the order you made the connections in" is an feature of the
language that is somehow analogous to Max's right-to-left sorting.
Furthermore, I'd say it should be introduced as [t a a], [t f b], etc.,
right away. It shouldn't give the impression that properly ordering things
in pd is something cumbersome that eats away half the width of the patch
(or all of it).
The fact that Pd executes in the order the connections were made only
makes sense in light of the explicit use of [trigger]. Even if Pd
rolled some virtual dice to determine execution order when multiple
connections are coming from a single object, most of our patches would
work the same because we all use [trigger] explicitly in Pd, right?
It's not just that, it's that sometimes, the order just doesn't matter at
all.
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