[PD] feature request for [list]

[Miller Puckette]

Hi all,

I'm thinking of adding "parallelize" and "serialize" options to list
that (I think) would include the function of "drip"... and I think I
should add "list length" too.

The negative index thing for "nth" sounds like a bad idea, out of keeping
with Pd's more usual style of limiting out-of-range values to the end of
the range in question.

I'm more worried about bug fixes and new platgorms (a64; macintel) at
the moment, though...

cheers
Miller


On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 09:50:02AM +0800, Chris McCormick wrote:
> 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.
> 
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