patco wrote:
I hope I've demonstrated clearly enough how it might be important to have a memory inside an abstraction.
yeah, perfectly.
there are certainly situations where data ought to be stored in the patch (after all, a patch IS both code and data; this is one of the core differences between pd and max (although you can store data in max patches too)).
i just wanted to keep anybody from thinking that [textfile] is only available via external libraries and that it should be avoided in general if you want to depend on as little external ressources as possible.
mfg.asdr. IOhannes