On 23.02.2011, at 00:41, Evan Laforge wrote:

> The notion of a "play time" (i.e. an implicit global "now" at which
> point samples are computed) seems antithetical to the ability to
> manipulate sounds in the same way as notes, and in fact to functional
> programming in general.  Doesn't global "now" defeat closure, and thus
> compositionality?

I think even local "now" defeats strict closure, just like any interaction 
does. The standard pure functional part of SuperCollider for instance has no 
notion of now. I can imagine that it is easy to invent many notions of time 
that could lead to specific subsets, each interesting for itself.
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