[PD] tab-abs

Kyle Klipowicz kyleklip at gmail.com
Sun Nov 8 21:09:14 CET 2009


I would encourage it!

A Pd-vanilla approach to table manipulations is sadly lacking, and list-abs
is a beautiful API to adhere to.

I'm sure that many rj-dj programmers wouldn't mind something like this...

~Kyle

2009/11/8 Matt Barber <brbrofsvl at gmail.com>

> Ah, yes, thanks!  I've said it before -- one of my favorite things
> about list-abs is their use in pedagogy -- you can get "under the
> hood" in them with music students and they don't have to learn C to do
> it (each of the list-abs objects could be written much more
> efficiently in C but it's nice to have them as abstractions, and
> vanilla abstractions at that).  These iem_tab objects are great as far
> as use-within-a-patch is concerned, though, so again thanks.  Maybe
> I'll make my own abstractions for pedagogy.
>
> Matt
>
> 2009/11/8 Raphaël Isdant <raphael.isdant at free.fr>:
> > Hi, you should check into /pd/extra/iem_tab
> >
> > Raf
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Barber" <brbrofsvl at gmail.com>
> > To: "PD-List" <pd-list at iem.at>
> > Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 4:04 AM
> > Subject: [PD] tab-abs
> >
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I think this has been proposed before, so maybe I've missed it.  Is
> >> there a library of abstractions for operations on tables akin to
> >> list-abs?  If not, I'd like to consider how such a library might be
> >> organized  A lot of the list-abs abstractions could be translated and
> >> used for tables.  I could imagine for instance abstractions that would
> >> fill tables with various kinds of windows, and some that would
> >> implement such windows in a named table within the abstraction itself.
> >> Also, there might be abstractions that would perform the operations
> >> in-place, and some that would leave the source table intact and copy
> >> the results into another table.  Etc.
> >>
> >> Has this been developed and/or discussed already?  I would have a few
> >> to contribute.
> >>
> >> Matt
> >>
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