It seems inconsistent for cluster input/output renaming and description to be updated:
Is there a fix for this to have cleaner and more consistent cluster making experience?
Seems like the problem is quite old, maybe from the beginning of GH1.
Not that I need a solution, but I am actually quite curious why it cannot be fixed.
Yup, I remember this actually being one of my first topics on the old forum, which would have been around 7 or so years ago.
By now it has become second nature to either name the inputs and outputs properly when I create them or just delete one and create a new one when I need to edit the name/description.
Also I actually use clusters much less now. In my opinion its much better to keep your code clean and well labelled, use groups and comments, etc. That way I find I hardly ever use clusters, even when working on really large definitions. Sometimes I will create a cluster of something and then turn it into a user object to re-use again. Otherwise I find they hide valueable information and are much harder to re-factor.
Still should have been an easy fix to have names update as expected.
Thnx for the discussion Armin,
I wonder without cluster how do you turn repeated “code” into a “function” and “call”, modify and update it everywhere?
I normally don’t have those cases very often. If I have a small cluster of things that I think is useful elsewhere I will turn it into a user object. That means it can’t be updated, which is actually a good thing, since you can use it any document and not fear breaking an old script.