Hallo, matteo sisti sette hat gesagt: // matteo sisti sette wrote:
You may argue that I am reluctant to use an external while I would use pdlua, but one thing is to install an external that solves a specific problem, another thing is to install one single extension mechanism (pdlua) that allows you to develop any "externals" (especially when we're talking of externals for manipulating data, not for using hardware etc).
I think it's a pity that PD Vanilla doesn't include [symbol2list] or any objects capable of "breaking" symbols a little bit (with which one could build a symbol2list abstraction and maybe more), since it does give the possibility to join symbols.
I very much agree that pdlua is a wonderful extension ("best thing since [list]") that should become one of the standard externals to learn for every Pd user, because it can be used to implement all this missing (message) functionality of vanilla Pd while still requiring only a single tiny binary to install.
Some people may miss [s2l] in vanilla Pd, others miss a [pipe] for variable length lists or a multi-period [metro], a flexible markov chain object and whatnot. With pdlua most of this is almost trivial to write and can be installed without the need to compile anything once pdlua is installed.
Ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__