On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 11:21 -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
Le 2012-03-27 à 08:04:00, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit :
Anythings aren't really free-form, either. "float my boat" isn't a valid message in Pd.
I mean as free-form as storable Anythings can be. I not talking about atoms that are not storable, nor about non-atoms, pink elephants and winged pigs.
But even if you're reading a Pd file with [textfile]-- which as far as I know doesn't ever start with the word "float"--
selector float can always be implied, so it needs not be written. This is because of what binbuf_eval does.
(Of course, there are externals, but they're not the kind of thing used by the kind of people who come up with list-abs.)
I don't know what that means. What does that mean?
list-abs was designed to only use pd's builtins, no externs, which makes it more like academic exercises of proving that anything can be done with a Turing tape machine
I can only speak for myself (your opinion obviously differs), but I actually find the list-abs library pretty useful. Though, I am sometimes not using it directly, but copy&pasting stuff from it to my patches. And sometimes I really use it as a library. I find the goal of it being only vanilla rather a pragmatic than an academic one.
I also expect Frank not to have made it only for academia's sake.
Roman