fl.expr~ added functionality

[Former user]

Would it be possible to make it so fl.expr~ can take a frame as an input and parse positional values as arguments?

For example you pass the frame [1, 2, 3, 4] and you could do fl.expr~ in1 + in4 * in3 / in2.

This would be convenient for doing things in granular synthesis like calculating loop lengths between values that determine slice points in a buffer, or scaling ranges without using many fl.~ objects.

[Alex Harker]

Re-reading this I think I misunderstood what you wanted before.

Is there a (good) reason that you can't just [fl.chop~ 1] -> fl.expr~?

Because fl.expr~ is just a single object way of making a network of objects, that is actually what I'd have to do to anyway. I tried approaches that parse the expression into a calculation method but they weren't as fast, so fl.expr~ just builds the equivalent network for you under the hood.

[Alex Harker]

Sorry - that's probably [fl.chop~ 4 1]

[Former user]

fl.chop~ was my original workflow. It is perfectly fine to do it that way as you would expect, but I pined for the functionality that exists in expr where you don't have to connect patch cables to determine inputs. Instead $i1/in1 would be determined by position in the frame.

I guess what I am asking here is it possible to implement a /scalar parameter.

[Alex Harker]

Closing, because there are other ways of doing it and functionality shouldn't be added for specific use cases where there are already viable solutions.