[PD] feature request for [list]

[Chris McCormick]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 12:01:29PM +0200, pd-list-request at iem.at wrote:
> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:14:46 +0200
> From: Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org>
> Subject: Re: [PD] feature request for [list]
> 
> Hallo,
> Chris McCormick hat gesagt: // Chris McCormick wrote:
> 
> > So basically I'd like to see a [list length] and an [s2l].
> 
> You can do "list length" with a simple counter and "list split"
> already. It's called [list-len] in [list]-abs.  However unfolding a
> list using [until] and [list split] is very slow.  I did benchmarks
> comparing it to [drip] and it takes ages longer. As a "drip" operation
> is used so often - Matju once compared it to the "for"-loop of other
> languages - it is important that "drip" is fast, and not only fast,
> but very fast.  I'd much prefer to have a fast unfolding operation
> over getting "list length". 

Yes, good point.

> And negative indices are just very convenient, and the object is
> already in.
> 
> I don't think that [s2l] should become part of [list]. To me
> it is a typical string operation, like Perl's split and string.split()
> in Python. 

Agreed. If someone made patches against Miller's Pd and put it in SF
patch tracker would these probably make it in?

Chris.

-------------------
chris at mccormick.cx
http://mccormick.cx