Re: [PD] [pdconv16_r] Topic idea: Nested lists

2016-12-01 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 21:58 +, 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

Re: [PD] [pdconv16_r] Topic idea: Nested lists

2016-12-01 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Tue, 2016-11-29 at 11:56 +0800, Chris McCormick wrote: > Hi Roman, > > On 29/11/16 05:36, Roman Haefeli wrote: > > > > As far as I can see it, it is currently impossible to pass a > > variable > > number of arguments to child objects and also [list args] wouldn't > > address that. > Yes, you a

Re: [PD] [pdconv16_r] Topic idea: Nested lists

2016-11-30 Thread Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list
> 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 argument

Re: [PD] [pdconv16_r] Topic idea: Nested lists

2016-11-28 Thread Chris McCormick
Hi Roman, On 29/11/16 05:36, Roman Haefeli wrote: As far as I can see it, it is currently impossible to pass a variable number of arguments to child objects and also [list args] wouldn't address that. Yes, you are right. You could do that with dynamic patching of course but I guess that answe

Re: [PD] [pdconv16_r] Topic idea: Nested lists

2016-11-28 Thread Roman Haefeli
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  

Re: [PD] [pdconv16_r] Topic idea: Nested lists

2016-10-31 Thread Roman Haefeli
How can Pure Data's capabilities for dealing with different data sets be extended? Does it make sense to adopt concepts from scripted languages to the dataflow paradigm? Examples: tuples, dictionaries, multi-dimensional arrays, [...] PROPOSAL: Syntax for nesting lists so that lists can be organize