List Commands Library for 50g

[DavidM]

(08-11-2017 09:14 AM)pier4r Wrote:  update:
- map works, but the flag requirements are somehow strict (why radiants?)
- AXL is great! And it shows how much still I do not know of the default builtin functions! I even wrote userRPL routines to convert lists in arrays and viceversa and in all the time I searched in the AUR I never stumbled upon the AXL command. This happens when I read the user guide (that gives me the first directions, then I check the AUR) and I skip the parts that I deem not so crucial.

I had already started typing a response that prominently featured the AXL command last night (it would have been very similar to Gilles', actually). But then I decided to sleep on it before responding. After more consideration, I'm still coming to the same conclusion: the conversion of vectors/matrices to lists is simple enough, and best handled at the user's discretion. Adding this functionality to the library would probably add complexity to the code (and therefore size) that isn't offset by the value received. When you consider that arrays/matrices are much more limited in the object types they can contain, it would put a bit more burden on the library's commands to check embedded object types. This could impact performance in ways that just don't seem to be a good trade-off to me.

(08-11-2017 09:14 AM)pier4r Wrote:  I wonder when I will master all the built in commands that I may need, I need to use the 50g more.

One of the amazing things about all of these devices is that, no matter how much I learn about what they can do, there's always more to discover. Even the commands that I think I already understand are sometimes used in novel ways at the hands of the creative people that share their insights here.

I'm not sure what it would be like to actually "master" all the built-in commands of something like the 50g, but if one were to achieve that status, there's plenty of other tools to learn about. Just take a couple of minutes looking through any of the other threads here...