[L2Ork-dev] Bug in route

Ivica Ico Bukvic ico at vt.edu
Wed Oct 9 02:48:48 UTC 2013


On 10/08/2013 04:09 PM, Albert Graef wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Ivica Bukvic <ico at vt.edu> wrote:
>> The fact that the route can be used both as a route and a
>> selector to me is something that is not and optimal approach.
> I agree that 'route' is rather confusing in some ways. But there needs
> to be a way to dispatch on data types and 'route' is the most obvious
> choice for that. The way that vanilla Pd's 'route' behaves in that
> mode is IMHO straightforward and also consistent with the way it
> dispatches on literal selectors. As long as you don't try to mix the
> different modes, that is; but it's always easy to do without that.
>
> It's fine for me if pd-l2ork goes off into its own direction, as long
> as there remains a core set of objects which makes it possible to
> write patches that work with both vanilla pd and pd-l2ork. And 'route'
> is certainly one of these objects, as you can't really do much
> symbolic processing without it. Breaking compatibility with vanilla pd
> there is going to be a real problem, at least for me.
>
Albert, please try attached patch and report behavior. According to help 
file logic, it should output bangs but I think it forwards values. This 
is why I introduced a patch on 8/26 to address this inconsistency. The 
patch in question is exactly the opposite of what you're proposing. See 
https://github.com/agraef/pd/commit/e44d8b35eecc27822ea990ab8b0a3de9a0e4636a

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