barry threw

In an abstraction, is there a way to distinguish between an absent 

I would like to change the behavior of an abstraction if an argument is 

omitted, but would like for 0 to remain as a valid argument.

In an abstraction, is there a way to distinguish between an absent 
argument and an argument of 0?

I would like to change the behavior of an abstraction if an argument is 
omitted, but would like for 0 to remain as a valid argument.

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detecting-absent-arguments

I wonder if something horrible like this would do.

Doesn't seem to do anything different for me. I get a zero printed 

whether I left out the argument or gave it a zero.

> I wonder if something horrible like this would do.

> #P newex 202 177 66 9109513 regexp #(.*);

> #P number 229 101 35 9 0 0 0 139 0 0 0 221 221 221 222 222 222 0 0 0;

Doesn't seem to do anything different for me.  I get a zero printed 
whether I left out the argument or gave it a zero.

Andrew Pask wrote:
>
> I wonder if something horrible like this would do.
>
> #P window setfont "Sans Serif" 9.;
> #P window linecount 1;
> #P message 151 93 18 9109513 $2;
> #P message 122 93 18 9109513 $1;
> #P newex 202 177 66 9109513 regexp #(.*);
> #P newex 244 238 26 9109513 print;
> #P number 229 101 35 9 0 0 0 139 0 0 0 221 221 221 222 222 222 0 0 0;
> #P message 184 90 18 9109513 $4;
> #P connect 4 0 3 0;
> #P connect 5 0 3 0;
> #P connect 3 3 2 0;
> #P fasten 1 0 3 0 207 175;
> #P connect 0 0 3 0;
> #P window clipboard copycount 6;
>
> -A
>
>

oops yeah, dumb idea, maybe I should have tried it first.

As always, your help is greatly appriciated. Thanks..

> oops yeah, dumb idea, maybe I should have tried it first.

> #P newex 150 149 57 9109513 patcherargs;

As always, your help is greatly appriciated.  Thanks..

Andrew Pask wrote:
>
>
> oops yeah, dumb idea, maybe I should have tried it first.
>
> How about version 2?
>
> #P window setfont "Sans Serif" 9.;
> #P window linecount 1;
> #P newex 150 149 57 9109513 patcherargs;
> #P inlet 150 111 15 0;
> #P newex 150 181 42 9109513 print arg;
> #P connect 1 0 2 0;
> #P connect 2 0 0 0;
> #P window clipboard copycount 3;
>
>
> -A
>

Detecting absent arguments.