[PD] Further questions on struct and the external api

[João Pais]

>>> I’m discovering the superb world of struct (with the 3 recommended tutorials, all of which very biased towards the graphic angle
>> at least there is a visible reward for all the effort it takes to work with data-s
> I understand the argument, but for me I read it was ‘for graphics’ - it was limiting until I understood it was not just for that.

it was just a joke. but yes, most of the patching around is used for 
graphic display/interaction.


>> what you mean with dummy? [append] needs at least one float to be declared
> That is what I mean, in this case I just need key -> float array, neither of them would be able to trigger a creation of a new item. This is why [text] is my new friend, although it won’t help with nested lists and arbitrary dictionary style structures. I’ll find a way.
I just tried to store and retrieve a pointer from [text] , it didn't 
work. But it does work with [list]. Maybe there is some smart hack that 
allows for (pointer) to be correctly read from [text].
>> if you're into consoles full or red letters.
> :D
>
> I’m trying to behave so the 2 proposals you put are great.
>
>> I guess so far no one predicted that a scalar could have no variables at all.
> I am aware I’m bending the concept of struct. It was not meant to be a dictionary, especially not with nested ones.
that indicates the principle could be improved. such like it's not 
possible to append a scalar with a symbol directly, there are still 
things to improve. if a struct template doesn't need a float, why force 
it to have one?
>>> the question I now have is for people developing externals
> Is this list the right place for that question? I would like to be able to read and write [text] and [struct] declared in the patch within my externals but I don’t know if that is possible in the API.
probably the dev list might be more helpful, although they also are here.