[PD] feature request for [list]

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Apr 11, 2006, at 12:40 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> Frank Barknecht wrote:
>
>> 1) negative indices to [list split] (patch available @sourceforge)
>> 2) a fast [drip] made native to [list] (source code in Zexy)
>
> by [drip] do you mean [repack 1] or the "real" (delay-based!) [drip]?
>
>>
>
> what comes to my mind is als [list length] (but you already  
> mentioned that)
>
> ah: and i really would like if the list objects would NOT use space  
> but
> some other delimiter so people (like frank) could write objects  
> that are
> undistinguishable at first glance from built-in objects.
> just adding an alias name would be enough...

I agree.  How about:

[list/split]
[list/append]
[list/prepend]
[list/trim]

I.e. a list libdir which works with the namespaces.

.hc


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