On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Frank Barknecht wrote:
No. What is missing in Pd is a "hash" or "map" object, which allows fast lookup of data by keyword. Actually also a proper "vector" is missing, where one can store and retrieve lists by index number without having to traverse the whole vector sequentially.
What should their feature-sets be? Because i don't know what "proper"
means here. Already existing vector-like things in Pd would be
arrays-of-floats, arrays-of-structs, and lists-of-atoms.
The thing that you need to traverse element-by-element is when you use (g)pointers such as with [get] [put] [elem], which is another kind of thing called a list.
What would the "hash" or "map" object would do that [pool] doesn't ?
What about Georg Holzmann's PdContainer ?
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