[PD] feature request for [list]

[Miller Puckette]

Perhaps, if it's done frequently (I have no idea...) we just need a
different name for it... "rnth" or something.


On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 01:02:14PM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Miller Puckette wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Ok, so you want people to do it like this instead?
> 
>    |
>   [t l l]
>    |   |
>    |  [list length]
>    |   |
>    |  [- ] <--- feed me
>    |   |
>   [list nth]
>    |
> 
> well, people can use this. the question is, how many will get bored with 
> the circumlocution. Why not adapt the rest of Pd so that it accepts 
> negative indices?
> 
> Also, what do you think of using an abstraction for the complex product on
> signals and actually using it in the example patches? What if your Pd 
> actually came with abstractions? We want to see your abstractions.
> 
> > I'm more worried about bug fixes and new platgorms
> 
> Yeah, I'd be worried about new flatworms too.
> 
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