[PD] abstractions which have their own memory

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Tue Jul 4 19:23:07 CEST 2006


Hallo,
padawan12 hat gesagt: // padawan12 wrote:

> Arrays are not the best thing to use for data
> persistence. Messages constructed using "set"
> and then textfiles are preferable.
> Alexandre Quessy just posted a method yesterday
> that implements a per patch memory. You might like
> to study the "bag'o'tricks" GOP abstractions to see
> another effective example of doing this.

Personally I think, saving state *inside* a patch is The Wrong Thing
anyway, except for trivial things like [osc~ 440] or so. Anything else
should go in a seperate file. I sometime compare this to using a
text editor like Word or Emacs: It isn't useful to be able to only
edit one single text document with software like this, so you save
every text into a seperate  file, but use the same program to edit
them all.

Ciao
-- 
 Frank Barknecht                 _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__




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