Re: [sc-users] top five sclang pet peeves

[asynth@xxxxxxxxx]

I agree with all of these.

regarding #4, the current behavior was expedient at the time but semantically it is a mess: not obeying any of reference, value or functional semantics. if I were doing a mixed imperative/ functional language today, the data structures would prefer value semantics.

James McCartney --- iPhone 


> On Dec 25, 2017, at 09:59, stefaan.himpe@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> Sclang has a lot of incredibly good stuff to offer but sometimes it makes me
> curse. Without wanting to sound too negative, here are my top 5 pet peeves
> with sclang in supercollider.
> 
> Feel free to add your own, or bash mine (or ignore the post altogether) :)
> 
> 1. Order of mathematics operations. I understand it's an OO thing, but I
> have shot myself in the foot too many times with this already. For a
> language that is somewhat math-centric to adopt "alternative conventions" is
> rather evil. [Read: apparently it's hard to unlearn old habits]. 
> 2. Having to declare all variables at the beginning of a function. It works
> miracles for unreadability and breaking the flow.
> 3. The lack of an Sclang debugger - breakpoints, watch, ... those kinds of
> things. Debugging code based on postln is entirely possible, but can be
> frustrating, especially in combination with point 2.
> 4. Calling add on an array returns a new array instead of adding to the
> existing one. I understand it has its advantages for chaining operations
> etc. This, admittedly, is mostly a matter of me having to get used to the
> conventions again.
> 5. No number five! I told you I'd keep it positive :D
> 
> 
> 
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