[PD-dev] list math

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

There are now a couple versions of math objects that do standard math  
operations on lists: Frank's list-abs and Cyrille's ds_/datastream.  I  
think that there should be a standard set of math objects that can  
handle lists of indeterminate length (like the previously mentioned  
objects).

So it seems that the list handling versions cannot be interchangable  
with the standard versions, since standard math objects will interpret  
lists as input to that objects inlets.  But it would be nice to have  
both options.  So I propose making a mirror math library for lists,  
like this:

math/clip
math/list/clip

math/*
math/list/*

math/min
math/list/min

etc. etc.

This would then largely be built from Frank's list-abs and Cyrille's  
ds_ objects and assembled to make sure that the list versions have the  
same interface as the standard versions.  Then for handling floats,  
they would be completely interchangable.

.hc

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