[PD] "list foreach"?

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

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On 2014-09-30 18:16, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> On 2014-09-30 17:08, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 03:51:38PM +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig 
>> wrote:
>>> On 2014-09-30 12:20, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>>>> I see that there now are the rather peculiar "list
>>>> fromsymbol" and "list tosymbol" methods in [list], but the
>>>> much needed "list foreach" still is missing. Why?
>>> 
>>> most likely, because yo can do a [list foreach] as a simple 
>>> abstraction (if you don't mind another name), while you cannot
>>> do a [list tosymbol].
> 
>> Okay, I see. But with the same logic, [list length] could be 
>> considered superfluous.
> 
>> list-drip.pd, the equivalent abstraction to "list foreach" in
>> the [list]-abs is the most used abstraction in the whole
>> collection. Although Matju's implementation is highly optimized,
>> including "list foreach" as an interal method would speed things
>> up immensely.
> 
> +1

re-reading your email, wouldn't [list cat] be the equivalent of [list
drip], whereas [list foreach] is the equivalent of [list map]?

in any case, i think that for performance reasons, both ought to be
available as compiled objects (and for practical reasons: built-in)

fgmsdr
IOhannes
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