[PD-dev] extending the .pd format

[B. Bogart]

I'd love to use data-structures, but not sure where to start...

I find little interest in messing with tcl/tk canvas drawing...

Anyone actually using data structures??

B.

guenter geiger wrote:
> 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
>>
> 
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