[chuck-users] Getting Started with ChucK

[Lucas Samaruga]

2009/7/21 Andrew Turley <aturley at acm.org>:
> I'm not denying the logic is there. And certainly you can do certain
> things in ChucK more easily that you can do them in SC. I'm just
> saying that if you come from SC (or CSound) there are some things in
> ChucK that may seem a little weird. And there might be some ways that
> ChucK could deal with these things. But I'm not saying that ChucK is
> REQUIRED to deal with them in the ways I'm talking about. I'm just
> throwing out ideas.
>
> At some point a programming language's utility is measured by it's
> ability to provide an easy way to do a common task. So in the end it
> depends on what you're trying to do. If you want to modulate on UGen
> using some other UGens, SC gives you a fairly easy way to do this. If
> you want sample-level control over your audio, ChucK might offer some
> advantages.
>
> Lucas, I agree that what I'm suggesting isn't necessarily in the
> spirit of ChucK as it is currently implemented. But imagine a
> situation in which the following was true:
> 1. Integer and Float values were objects.
> 2. These objects had a ".value()" method that returned the value of the object.
> 3. UGen objects had a ".value()" method that returned the current
> value of the UGen.
> As long as whatever you chucked to .freq had a ".value()" method, then
> you could do what I described. Every sample, the UGen would simply
> call "freq.value()" and get the current value of the frequency.
>
> Like I said, I'm just throwing out ideas.
>
> andy
>

Yep, was not my intention to talk about the design of chuck but the
way the things can be done. Because that I put the examples like
answers. I undestand your point, sorry if I make noise.

Greetings
Lucas