On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 11:21 -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > Le 2012-03-27 à 08:04:00, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit : > > > Anythings aren't really free-form, either. "float my boat" isn't a valid > > message in > > Pd. > > I mean as free-form as storable Anythings can be. I not talking about > atoms that are not storable, nor about non-atoms, pink elephants and > winged pigs. > > > But even if you're reading a Pd file with [textfile]-- which as far as I > > know doesn't ever start with the word "float"-- > > selector float can always be implied, so it needs not be written. This is > because of what binbuf_eval does. > > >> (Of course, there are externals, but they're not the kind of thing used by > >> the kind of people who come up with list-abs.) > > > > I don't know what that means. What does that mean? > > 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
I can only speak for myself (your opinion obviously differs), but I actually find the list-abs library pretty useful. Though, I am sometimes not using it directly, but copy&pasting stuff from it to my patches. And sometimes I really use it as a library. I find the goal of it being only vanilla rather a pragmatic than an academic one. I also expect Frank not to have made it only for academia's sake. Roman _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
