On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Krzysztof Czaja wrote:
hi Mathieu,
iirc the original PureData project was about keeping the max-like message passing system as simple as it was, and designing ``pure data structures'' instead. Has this project died?
If so, Pd should change its name, perhaps?
:) well, i have to admit that I never seriously used the pure data part of PD. Maybe its just a question of trying to work with the data-structures. My understanding is that the lists from the data-structure section are something different than MAX lists, but maybe its just my impression.
Guenter
Krzysztof
Mathieu Bouchard wrote: ...
Pd does not support nested lists, and isn't quite equipped to support them gracefully. This is partly linked to the fact that objects are expected to
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If they are effectively introduced, it'd probably be by adding T_LIST as an atom type. But that means that, to be like other atom types, a list