[PD] httpget: fun with tcpclient and pdstring
Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans at eds.org
Thu Mar 5 21:16:43 CET 2009
On Mar 5, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> It seems that we should have a string.h for tables then. That
>> would be a good starting point, just make a library that is just Pd
>> interpretations of all the string.h strcpy, etc. functions, but
>> have them operate on arrays and maybe lists of floats too.
>
> I very much recommend making a library that can handle both at an
> expense that is as close as possible to making a library for just
> one of them.
>
> But I believe that those list abstractions should be made for lists,
> and not for anythings, which is a dangerous precedent set by [list],
> because for example it prevents introducing a message "array $1"
> where $1 would be a send-symbol for an array. (Or it could be called
> [table]. why are there two names for that concept in pd anyway?)
I think that [array $1( would be better represented by an argument and
a matching inlet. I think that's clearer than using [array $1(.
.hc
>
>
>> There could also be a totally Pd-ish string library too.
>
> No idea what that means in your head, sorry... :/
>
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