On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Frank Barknecht wrote:
If Pd would get "list length" as well, then negative indices could be emulated easily with an abstraction like [list-splat], so if you don't like negative indices from an aestethic point of view ;) they wouldn't be needed anymore with [list length]
[list length] already isn't "needed", it's just that to find the length of a list of length 1000 it takes 499500 steps, and doubling the list length makes it take four times more steps. You just have to upgrade your CPU ;-)
But seriously, if Pd had more primitives it'd be less primitive.
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