On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:21:15AM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > list-abs was designed to only use pd's builtins, no externs, which > makes it more like academic exercises of proving that anything can > be done with a Turing tape machine, rather than being designed in a > pragmatic way.
Actually I consider list-abs to be very pragmatic *because* it only uses builtins. This makes it highly portable and trivial to use everywhere, even without installing it globally. If you treat list-abs as an interface or API, it also is very easy to optimize the objects by using externals inside of the list-abs-abstractions without having to change the surrounding patches. I already sketched this approach four years ago: http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2008-12/066571.html Ciao -- Frank _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list