[PD] a story for Lists

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Mon Aug 10 04:01:14 CEST 2009


On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> > Oops, there was supposed to be a second part to that, which is a 
> > question: So why couldn't meta-messages all be lists,
>
> basically because it is like it is.
> i guess that if someone (not completely naive; and with an eye on
> language-design and not just tool-design) would go and re-invent the
> wheel, they would make lists just lists. without any special "selector"
> (just the first element of the list).

Ah, perhaps you, as the maintainer of GEM, could tell us how all those 
"open"/"set"/etc would be, if Pd were redesigned from scratch the way 
you'd enjoy. I'm certainly curious about it.

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