[PD] httpget: fun with tcpclient and pdstring

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Mar 5, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> It seems that we should have a string.h for tables then.  That  
>> would be a good starting point, just make a library that is just Pd  
>> interpretations of all the string.h strcpy, etc. functions, but  
>> have them operate on arrays and maybe lists of floats too.
>
> I very much recommend making a library that can handle both at an  
> expense that is as close as possible to making a library for just  
> one of them.
>
> But I believe that those list abstractions should be made for lists,  
> and not for anythings, which is a dangerous precedent set by [list],  
> because for example it prevents introducing a message "array $1"  
> where $1 would be a send-symbol for an array. (Or it could be called  
> [table]. why are there two names for that concept in pd anyway?)

I think that [array $1( would be better represented by an argument and  
a matching inlet.  I think that's clearer than using [array $1(.

.hc

>
>
>> There could also be a totally Pd-ish string library too.
>
> No idea what that means in your head, sorry... :/
>
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