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. _______________________________________________ haskell-art mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lurk.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-art
