[PD-dev] list math

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> 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. 

Where can I take a look at ds_? 

> 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.

One thing that I considered and important convenience feature for all
the arithmetics in [list]-abs was, that they should handle lists where
float-elements and symbol-elements are mixed as well by just passing
through symbol-elements. That is, "list x 1 y 2 z 3" * "float 2" would
result in "list x 2 y 4 z 6". So most of my abstractions have a [route
float] inside and math is only done at the left outlet of [route].
([list-makefilename] works the other way around and ignores floats.)

I'm not sure if this can be included in the proposed arithmetics
objects, but IMO it is a very useful feature.

Ciao
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