On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 08:46:54AM +0800, Chris McCormick wrote: > Hi Miller, > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 01:21:29PM -0700, Miller Puckette wrote: > > belated response... > > > > how about 'list tosymbol' and 'list fromsymbol'? I.e. > > > > 98 97 116 -> bat -> 98 97 116 > > I don't think this would accomodate the same use-cases as zexy's > [symbol2list] or the hypothetical [split]. It doesn't really help in the > original ratio-parsing case which started this thread. > > I was thinking more of: > > (symbol) "this/is/my/path/symbol.txt" -> (list) "this" "is" "my" "path" > "symbol.txt" -> (symbol) "this/is/my/path/symbol.txt" > > Or in the ratios case cited: > > "2/3" -> "2" "3" -> "2/3" > > This would give it a great deal of general usefulness. > > I am in favour of having that functionality as part of [list] and those names > look good to me. For the functionality you describe maybe something like > [list ascii2symbol] and [list symbol2ascii]? Those would also be pretty > useful! > > I am currently making a [split] abstraction based on Jamie's work. I will > send it through when I am done - or you can just look at symbol2list's source > which IOhannes has re-licensed in a message to this list for use in Pd: >
hmm... another possibility, as in lisp: "list explode" and "list implode" ? My idea is that, once this is in Pd vanilla, the "2/3" -> "2" "3" type of split is easy enough to program in an abstraction, but it's presently not possible at all; meanwhile, the funtionality I'm describing is pretty canonical and hard to split up into finer components in any way I can see. cheers Miller _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
