Hallo, Roman Haefeli hat gesagt: // Roman Haefeli wrote:
more and more i realize that i can do most basic things in pd without externals. before all, the introduction of [list] made many objs of externals, that i used a lot, obsolete. one (in my eyes) basic task remains uncovered by list: splitting symbols into lists (e.g. separated by a separator-char). it would be very nice, if this could be done in future versions of pd. i really like the idea to be independent from externals as far as it is possible, mainly for reasons of portability. even if i could reach the same with less code, i'd prefer the solution built with only natives. are there good reasons against this idea?
I don't think this is functionality that belongs to the [list] object itself. But I agree that [s2l] or [fromsymbol] would be very useful to have inside main Pd as well. ("l2s" is already possible using only builtin objects, see list-l2s.pd in [list]-abs.)
I would however vote for adding
- negative indices to [list split] (patch available @sourceforge)
- a fast [drip] made native to [list] (source code in Zexy)
to pd-0.40, because [drip] is necessary for every non-trivial list-operation and negative indices are a natural extension of the currently available splitting and they are trivial to implement.
Another item on my wishlist would be a faster [repack] than the usual [list prepend]X[t a] idiom.
Ciao
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