belated response... how about 'list tosymbol' and 'list fromsymbol'? I.e.
98 97 116 -> bat -> 98 97 116 On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 10:45:24PM +0100, Andy Farnell wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 17:12:49 -0400 > Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Aug 3, 2011, at 3:29 PM, Andy Farnell wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 14:21:09 +0800 > > > Chris McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> Would you consider adding a more generally useful [split] object > > > > > > I agree this would be a useful core object. > > > > > > What problems, if any, do you forsee? > > > > > > Would those outputs implicitly be symbols? Or would we venture > > > the types in advance like > > > > > > [split f / f] > > > > > > to obtain two floats > > > > > > Turning the symbol 5/7 to a real number > > > would then be > > > > > > [symbol 5/7( > > > | > > > [split f / f] > > > | / > > > [/ ] > > > | > > > [number 0.714285] > > > > > > I think to fit with the Pd type system in general, it should > > automatically interpret things into floats and symbols > > (http://puredata.info/dev/PdDefinitions > > ): > > > > Pd Manual 2.1.2 > > > > "The text is divided into atoms separated by white space." > > > > "Atoms are either numbers or symbols like '+'. " > > > > Pd Manual 2.1.2 > > > > "Anything that is not a valid number is considered a symbol." > > > That seems unambiguous. So I guess if you wanted your "numbers" as > symbols, you'd explicitly convert them back to symbols. > > I used to use [symbol2list] a lot, so Iohannes suggestion > is interesting. But could that split on an arbitary > symbol like Chris suggests for the proposed [split] ? > > a. > > -- > Andy Farnell <[email protected]> > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
