[PD-dev] an idea for Pd structure

[guenter geiger]

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> I would generally have no problem with replacing the OSC-messages for
> rrad-internal messages with lists.
>
> But I would need to solve another thing: The fact, that OSC message
> targets are just a single atom in Pd, and not a list, while they still
> can describe hierarchies of e.g. abstractions.
>
> This is very useful, if you want to "pack" lists into abstraction
> arguments. $1 in OSC lingo can be "/myabs/synths/fm/carrier" whereas
> [route]-lingo would need $1-4 for the same: "myabs synths fm carrier".
>
> Now someone might suggest to pack the 4-element list with something
> like "list2symbol" in advance. But in fact that only brings us back to
> OSC formatted messages. ;)

.. and it would be a terribly ugly solution too.

Mhmm,

Guenter