On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
It seems that we should have a string.h for tables then. That would be a good starting point, just make a library that is just Pd interpretations of all the string.h strcpy, etc. functions, but have them operate on arrays and maybe lists of floats too.
I very much recommend making a library that can handle both at an expense that is as close as possible to making a library for just one of them.
But I believe that those list abstractions should be made for lists, and not for anythings, which is a dangerous precedent set by [list], because for example it prevents introducing a message "array $1" where $1 would be a send-symbol for an array. (Or it could be called [table]. why are there two names for that concept in pd anyway?)
There could also be a totally Pd-ish string library too.
No idea what that means in your head, sorry... :/
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