I m interested in the concept of a spread which I have seen

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I m interested in the concept of a spread which I have seen discussed by Toby Schachman and < Joshua Horowitz> partly in the context of dynamicland though I forget where anyone got a link In my own system I m thinking I ll have them

Ivan Reese · Answer

We talk about them a bit in the crosscut paper <https www inkandswitch com crosscut |https www inkandswitch com crosscut >

Ivan Reese · Answer

First place I saw them was in Toby s Apparatus <http aprt us|http aprt us>

Ivan Reese · Answer

I believe he talked about them in more depth somewhere Can t quite remember

hamish todd · Answer

Joshua correctly guessed I was thinking about this <https joshuahhh notion site Spreads in Apparatus 50c116eaeed0457d87da8180c2dc151f>

Ivan Reese · Answer

Yeah That s the thing I was thinking about Thanks for sharing that back here

Joshua Horowitz · Answer

Hope you enjoy For future reference Dynamicland work hasn t made use of spreads yet the only place I ve seen them is Apparatus

Toby Schachman · Answer

Saw this in the weekly digest Spreads including this name I borrowed from vvvv which is a dataflow nodes and wires environment You can put a spread of values into any input pin and the output pins will be correspondingly spread It s like the List Monad I guess

Duncan Cragg · Answer

I have something like this in my lang Any value anywhere can be a single value or a sequence It was a scary decision to make at first but it worked