On Sun, 28 Aug 2011, Peter Brinkmann wrote:
Well, I'm taking a complicated implementation detail (t_symbol)
but t_symbol is a higher-level structure for wrapping the const char *. :}
I thought I had already explained this when we had our little chat over at pd-everywhere, but I'll try again. Calling the message assembly API of libpd stateful is technically true but completely misleading because the hidden state is only meant to be used in a very specific and limited way.
Hidden states usually are meant to be used in very specific and limited ways... I don't know at all the distinction you're trying to make. The statefulness of libpd is not misleading. Trying to say that it's not really stateful, is misleading. I don't know what kind of connotations the statefulness means to you and why you're trying to avoid calling it as such.
Anyway, it's not a big loss to have statefulness in those circumstances, as it's just before the beginning of a part that would have to be locked anyway, or in a part that would have to be locked anyway (if calling gensym).
Here's the problem that it is supposed to solve: You want to translate a heterogeneous list of objects in Java into an array of type t_atom in C. That's all.
Btw, did you look at Pascal Gauthier's library ? ...and also, I just read your libpd_read_array and libpd_write_array functions. They don't work in 64-bit mode, in which sizeof(t_word) != sizeof(t_float).
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