overtone/overtone — comment on commit f17129e3b7646fa40dca02a653a9a2ad90a1dbb6
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By samaaron:

Actually, the more I consider it, the less I'm convinced that being able to handle integers is useful even in a REPL situation. Unless you're creating buffers directly with OSC messages, your only way of creating buffers is with the fns that return buffer maps, and it's no point testing out buffer functionality unless you already have an allocated buffer on the server.

Perhaps you have a usecase scenario that demonstrates where being able to handle ids directly is useful?