I would encourage it! A Pd-vanilla approach to table manipulations is sadly lacking, and list-abs is a beautiful API to adhere to.
I'm sure that many rj-dj programmers wouldn't mind something like this... ~Kyle 2009/11/8 Matt Barber <brbrof...@gmail.com> > Ah, yes, thanks! I've said it before -- one of my favorite things > about list-abs is their use in pedagogy -- you can get "under the > hood" in them with music students and they don't have to learn C to do > it (each of the list-abs objects could be written much more > efficiently in C but it's nice to have them as abstractions, and > vanilla abstractions at that). These iem_tab objects are great as far > as use-within-a-patch is concerned, though, so again thanks. Maybe > I'll make my own abstractions for pedagogy. > > Matt > > 2009/11/8 Raphaël Isdant <raphael.isd...@free.fr>: > > Hi, you should check into /pd/extra/iem_tab > > > > Raf > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Barber" <brbrof...@gmail.com> > > To: "PD-List" <pd-list@iem.at> > > Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 4:04 AM > > Subject: [PD] tab-abs > > > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> I think this has been proposed before, so maybe I've missed it. Is > >> there a library of abstractions for operations on tables akin to > >> list-abs? If not, I'd like to consider how such a library might be > >> organized A lot of the list-abs abstractions could be translated and > >> used for tables. I could imagine for instance abstractions that would > >> fill tables with various kinds of windows, and some that would > >> implement such windows in a named table within the abstraction itself. > >> Also, there might be abstractions that would perform the operations > >> in-place, and some that would leave the source table intact and copy > >> the results into another table. Etc. > >> > >> Has this been developed and/or discussed already? I would have a few > >> to contribute. > >> > >> Matt > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > >> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > -- ----- ------------ ---- ----- ---- -------- - ------ http://plenum.tumblr.com http://myspace.com/plenummusic
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