[PD-dev] extending the .pd format

[guenter geiger]

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Krzysztof Czaja wrote:
> hi Mathieu,
>
> iirc the original PureData project was about keeping the max-like
> message passing system as simple as it was, and designing ``pure
> data structures'' instead.  Has this project died?
>
> If so, Pd should change its name, perhaps?

:) well, i have to admit that I never seriously used the
pure data part of PD. Maybe its just a question of trying
to work with the data-structures. My understanding is that the lists
from the data-structure section are something different than
MAX lists, but maybe its just my impression.

Guenter

>
> Krzysztof
>
> Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> ...
> > Pd does not support nested lists, and isn't quite equipped to support them
> > gracefully. This is partly linked to the fact that objects are expected to
> ...
> > If they are effectively introduced, it'd probably be by adding T_LIST as
> > an atom type. But that means that, to be like other atom types, a list
>