On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:21:15AM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
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, rather than being designed in a pragmatic way.
Actually I consider list-abs to be very pragmatic *because* it only uses builtins. This makes it highly portable and trivial to use everywhere, even without installing it globally.
If you treat list-abs as an interface or API, it also is very easy to optimize the objects by using externals inside of the list-abs-abstractions without having to change the surrounding patches.
I already sketched this approach four years ago: http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2008-12/066571.html
Ciao
Frank