[PD-dev] First attempt at "list" object uploaded

Miller Puckette mpuckett at man104-1.ucsd.edu
Wed Jul 27 19:30:18 CEST 2005


On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 08:52:10AM -0400, B. Bogart wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I've been barely able to keep up with this thread. Lots of ideas and
> changes. Here I agree with everything that HC has to say.
> 
> I'm also a bit confused (anoyed) about the whole list vs nonlist things
> just for the reasons HC mentions. Miller, you said it is probably
> "better" to use lists rather than lists that do not start with "list" as
> the first element, non-lists. Why is this?? I think a list should be:
> 
> * interpreted in many cases as a non-list. (ie creating OSC names for
>   example, [list send /hello/blah value] automatically gets rid of the
>   "list" part because it knows what to do about it.
> 
> * be able to contain a mix of symbols and float atoms
> 
> * there be only be one "list-like" thing, I don't know what this would
>   make a non-list into... an undefined list? One would not need a
>   non-list if the first point above was true and the "list" part not
>   considered part of the list. (NOT the first element, but something
>   invisible that you never need to see, like "float [float]" where I
>   have never had the need to worry about it but the damn list selector
>   comes up all the time. :(
> 
> Thats all for me.
> 
Well, there's an attempt to straighten this out in a subpatch of the "list"
help window...

cheers
Miller




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