[list-abs] is IMO one of the best accomplishments in Pd. I use it for teaching all the time, because each abstraction is designed to solve a little — but nontrivial — problem. Students often tend not to to be all that interested in the unsexy land of control algorithms until they need something, and [list-abs] is a trove of solutions.

It's why I started working on an [array-abs]. Maybe soon someone will do a [text-abs].

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 5:41 AM, Frank Barknecht <fbar@footils.org> wrote:
Hi,

On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 12:06:58PM -0400, Matt Barber wrote:
> I don't know, I have a huge soft spot for [list-drip]. I think it's the
> paradigmatic example of how to do a recursive function in Pd (naive
> approaches to which usually die with a stack overflow). It makes sense to
> have a built-in iteration method for [list], but I'd kind of selfishly hate
> to obsolete [list-drip]. It's great for teaching because it makes students
> think a lot about how things are implemented.

[list]-abs even still include the very slow list-dripslow.pd, which is
only useful for teaching speed comparisons. :)

BTW.: I'm still impressed of list-abs being useful after several years, but
I'm also sorry for not having the time to update it to include some useful
new features of recent Pd versions.

Ciao

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