On Aug 31, 2011, at 2:33 AM, Chris McCormick wrote:
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:19:46PM -0700, Miller Puckette wrote:
I am in favour of having that functionality as part of [list] and
those names look good to me. For the functionality you describe
maybe something like [list ascii2symbol] and [list symbol2ascii]?
Those would also be pretty useful!
I am currently making a [split] abstraction based on Jamie's work.
I will send it through when I am done - or you can just look at
symbol2list's source which IOhannes has re-licensed in a message
to this list for use in Pd:
hmm... another possibility, as in lisp: "list explode" and "list
implode" ?
Also good!
My idea is that, once this is in Pd vanilla, the "2/3" -> "2" "3"
type
of split is easy enough to program in an abstraction, but it's
presently
not possible at all; meanwhile, the funtionality I'm describing is
pretty
canonical and hard to split up into finer components in any way I
can see.
Ah, ok, so you could do:
bat/cat/rat -> 98 97 116 47 99 97 116 47 114 97 116
and then you would run through the number list finding 47 ("/") and
re-building the separate symbols using the reverse operation.
I guess this would be cool because it would also allow you to store
proper strings with all kinds of characters in regular Pd arrays,
which might be fun. Hmmm, also many other things!
easy enough to program in an abstraction, but it's presently
not possible at all;
After looking at Jonathan's ratio splitting abstraction I think this
might actually be possible with [makefilename] madness, but it's
much uglier than what you propose:
<http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2011-08/090196.html>
Definitely check out Bryan Jurish's moocow with its bytes2any and
any2bytes. They work quite nicely for converting between messages and
lists of byte floats and are easy to use.
.hc
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