[PD-dev] Pd Strings

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Using arrays as strings is an interesting idea.  I don't think non- 
ascii charsets should be too big a deal, they are decently supported  
right now, without even trying :).  The Pd floats should store UTF-16  
fine, which really covers basically everything.  By the time UTF-32  
is used much, Pd will be using 64-bit floats.

.hc

On Nov 14, 2007, at 12:43 AM, Miller Puckette wrote:

> HI all,
>
> I don't have answers to all these, but I'm sure that adding a  
> string ytpe
> to Pd isn't the roght way to handle these problems.  But specifically:
>
> 1.  spaces in symbols are a parsing/formatting problem, not a data  
> type
> problem; 2. use arrays as strings as I proposed; 3.  I have to  
> think about
> that one some more (!) and 4. one thing is dealing with non-ascii  
> character
> sets, although there are likely to be many more problems to adress.
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 11:57:06PM -0500, Chris McCormick wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have deleted Miller's reply where he said that he's not that  
>> interested
>> in adding a string type to Pd, but I'd like to ask him a couple of
>> questions regarding that response, if that's ok.
>>
>> 1. How do you propose to solve the 'spaces in file path' issue  
>> without a
>> string type? Or are you content with that restriction?
>>
>> 2. How do you suggest that people deal with the symbol table  
>> pollution
>> issue mentioned before on this list, when they are doing operations
>> processing lots and lots of symbol-strings in Pd? Let me know if you
>> want more information about this issue.
>>
>> 3. Will a [symbol2list] ever make it into Pd canonical so that people
>> can split long symbols on a character, like the zexy external that  
>> does
>> this? It seems strange that you can concatenate symbols, but not  
>> split
>> them apart again.
>>
>> 4. Can anyone else help me with a concise summary of other string/Pd
>> issues I haven't thought of?
>>
>> Thanks for taking the time to read and reply.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Chris.
>>
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