<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>I don't understand what you're saying about receive symbols. How do you get the single characters in the first place? </span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>-Jonathan<br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Mathieu Bouchard <matju@artengine.ca><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Miller Puckette <msp@ucsd.edu>; Alexandre Torres Porres
<porres@gmail.com>; pd-lista puredata <pd-list@iem.at><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, August 4, 2011 12:03 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [PD] (breaking symbols) was Re: find a list of numbers in a text file<br></font><br>On Wed, 3 Aug 2011, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:<br><br>> Aw c'mon, Miller, you didn't even try. It's just a little sprintf hacking and that idiosyncratic recursion that outputs everything backwards.<br><br>You can greatly speed it up by registering one receive symbol per character, such as [r $0-char-1], [r $0-char-2], [r $0-char-/], etc., because then you're using receiver-lookup as a table of characters.<br><br>There's no limit to the possibilities of making silly implementations on top of a silly base. There aren't any pd interpreters that both correctly understand what $1 means and can't load standard <m_pd.h> externals.<br><br>
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