[Sc-devel] changing Event-play and integrating Routines with EventStreams

[James Harkins]

On Nov 5, 2007, at 9:46 AM, ronald kuivila wrote:

> The reason I am posting this email is that we also need to add the  
> rule that using
> setDelta or stretchDelta must be written  as follows to allow  
> SimpleNumbers to work.
>
> 	event = event.setDelta(val);
> 	event = event.stretchDelta(factor);

Hmm... not sure where I stand on this. On the one hand, eventPut  
would be more general. Without it, something like Pset(\xyz, Pwhite 
(0.0, 1.0, inf), Prout({ ... })) where the routine returns a number  
would throw an error... but maybe it should halt because Pset is  
meaningless in that context.

Which is more important -- alerting the user to a nonsensical usage  
(via an error) or allowing harmless (albeit superfluous) operations  
to proceed? The former is easier to debug, but one more failure point  
for live coders.

While this is an interesting gotcha, it would only affect users  
writing new patterns that modify existing events. So I think the  
damage would be contained.
hjh


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