[PD] feature request for [list]
Mathieu Bouchard
matju at artengine.ca
Wed Apr 19 19:18:49 CEST 2006
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> If Pd would get "list length" as well, then negative indices could be
> emulated easily with an abstraction like [list-splat], so if you don't
> like negative indices from an aestethic point of view ;) they wouldn't
> be needed anymore with [list length]
[list length] already isn't "needed", it's just that to find the length of
a list of length 1000 it takes 499500 steps, and doubling the list length
makes it take four times more steps. You just have to upgrade your CPU ;-)
But seriously, if Pd had more primitives it'd be less primitive.
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