[PD] (breaking symbols) was Re: find a list of numbers in a text file

[Jonathan Wilkes]

I don't understand what you're saying about receive symbols.  How do you get the single characters in the first place? 

-Jonathan




>________________________________
>From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
>To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
>Cc: Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu>; Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>; pd-lista puredata <pd-list at iem.at>
>Sent: Thursday, August 4, 2011 12:03 PM
>Subject: Re: [PD] (breaking symbols) was Re: find a list of numbers in a text file
>
>On Wed, 3 Aug 2011, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>
>> Aw c'mon, Miller, you didn't even try. It's just a little sprintf hacking and that idiosyncratic recursion that outputs everything backwards.
>
>You can greatly speed it up by registering one receive symbol per character, such as [r $0-char-1], [r $0-char-2], [r $0-char-/], etc., because then you're using receiver-lookup as a table of characters.
>
>There's no limit to the possibilities of making silly implementations on top of a silly base. There aren't any pd interpreters that both correctly understand what $1 means and can't load standard <m_pd.h> externals.
>
>_______________________________________________________________________
>| Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: +1.514.383.3801 ---- Villeray, Montréal, QC
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/attachments/20110804/77092882/attachment.htm>