On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 21:58 +0000, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > > Hey all > > > > > After watching "Future Pd Developments" round-table (thanks to > everyone > involved for the effort to record/put online), I feel like poking > some > more into the structured list idea. Some of the conclusions that came > up: > > > * Something like [list args] as a way to get all given arguments > as a > list would be utterly helpful. > > Please don't name it that. [list] objects currently operate on > incoming lists or > take an incoming symbol and output it as a list. In both cases the > output is > generated from the data arriving at the inlet (and in the latter case > at least > the name tells you exactly what kind of non-list data to feed it). > > [list args] would instead operate on load time data associated with > its parent > glist. In the common case where a user creates it on a toplevel > canvas, it also > has the drawback of not outputting a sane default-- i.e., an outgoing > "bang" > doesn't give you any clue about what "args" refers to.
It was not my choice, but I find your points plausible. > General comment: > Didn't we talk about abusing the comma atom for situations like this? > > So > [myOSCabstraction selector1 foo bar, selector2 bing bang, selector3 > something else] > > Then inside of that > > [loadbang] > | > [myArgParser selector2] <-- get the "selector2" part of the args > | > [list prepend set] > | > [list trim] > | > [oscformat] > > The benefit is that "selector2" is an arbitrary symbol in your own > language that > tells you and other users something about its data. $2, or even $@- > 2, only > tells you where it came from, which is incidental and not as > meaningful. I.e., > compare: > > [unpack 0 0 0 0 0] > | > [$2 $1 $3 $4 $5] > | > [s voice3] > > to > > [get note a d s r pitch] > | > [pack 0 0 0 0 0] > | > [s voice3] Oh, I like that! Roman
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