hi Spencer Salazar wrote:

Hi Enrike,

On Nov 13, 2006, at 9:08 PM, altern wrote:

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hi again

here i am with couple of questions again.

is there a way to concatenate strings? I am trying different ways with no much luck and i have checked the docs but i could not find a way to it.

Not at the moment... this is a high priority on the ChucK wish list, however.

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another issue is: is there a way to eval a string as code like in python or actionscript?

Also not at the moment... with string operations and the also highly desirable file i/o this would be somewhat possible to do, though.

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The questions come from some commands i am forced to type over and over despite of being almost identical

recv.event("/0/mute, i") @=> OscEvent mute0_osc;

the only difference of the number (0 in this case) for each of the sample players i have constructed

Would it be possible to create variables on the fly from concatenated strings? I mean something like (in wish code)

for (0 => int n; n < 8; n++){ "/" + Std.itoa(n) + "/mute, i" @=> string address; //concatenate string recv.event(address) @=> OscEvent Std.eval("mute"+ Std.itoa(n) + "_osc"); //concatenate and eval string }

I think code like this is really powerful and really useful, but unfortunately it sort of throws a big huge wrench into the type systems of languages like ChucK. So, to be honest, I don't see something like this usage of Std.eval becoming possible in the near future.

Sure, i understand that ChucK is not python. There are different tools for different tasks. I was just wondering if something like this would be possible. I am just trying to get an overview of the ChucKian way of thinking. I realised that some stuff is not in the documentation (maybe im wrong?) like Std.itoa() so I thought maybe there is other undocumented commands as well.

For what it's worth, once string operations are fully implemented, something resembling this will be possible:

OscEvent mute_osc[8]; for (0 => int n; n < 8; n++){ "/" + Std.itoa(n) + "/mute, i" @=> string address; //concatenate string recv.event(address) @=> mute_osc[n]; }

This is similar to your wish code, though not as dynamic or flexible of course.

sounds good enough to me. thanks enrike

thanks, spencer

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thanks

enrike

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