On Sat, 3 Sep 2011, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
It needs to be that simple for the general case because Pd Vanilla has no (sensible) mechanism to convert a symbol atom into a float.
Then it needs a sensible mechanism to convert a symbol atom into a float.
If symbol atoms which look like numbers to the naked eye are going to start flying around more freely in Pd then the docs need to explain how atoms are a kind of weird file cabinet where the label on the cabinet tells you which file-folder inside actually holds the data.
That's called a union or a variant record type or an «any» type or a sum-type or whatever else.
If it looks weird and/or difficult, it's because it's not taught in a way that makes it understood as normal.
Also, I'm assuming [list implode] would accept and process a list at the left inlet, unlike [s2l] (which passes the 1st element to the right inlet).
I don't understand. Wouldn't [list implode] correspond to [l2s], whereas [list explode] would correspond to [s2l].
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