slowcat should support arrays

[felixroos]

slowcat(0, [1, 2]) currently does not work. It would be handy if it worked analogous to "<0 [1 2]>"

[yaxu]

I noticed this too earlier, fix incoming..

[yaxu]

I'm a bit nervous about this though.. What if you want to make a pattern of lists, like chords? Could wrap them in pure but that would be a bit annoying

[felixroos]

wouldnt you do that with stack? the same could be said about sequence.. its also not really clear what the difference between sequence and cat is. do we need slowsequence?

[yaxu]

A pattern of lists is a bit different from a pattern with events that coincide. Although they're not used in tidal the desire to have them has come up occasionally. I'm fine with this as the default behaviour though and looking for workarounds later if necessary
Yes true we should merge cat and sequence now. Probably we just drop the latter.

[felixroos]

https://tidalcycles.org/docs/patternlib/tour/concatenation/#cat in tidal cat is slowcat, while in strudel, its fastcat..

[yaxu]

Hmm. Which do you prefer? I guess slowcat is nice for composing patterns together, fastcat is nice as an alternative to mininotation

[yaxu]

So maybe cat should be a slowcat (concatenating cycles) and sequence should be a fastcat (sequencing events in a cycle)

[felixroos]

ok! maybe add seq as a shortcut too? we would also need to refactor cat usage in tunes.mjs

[yaxu]

Yes to seq.

I'm just heading out now but just committed sequence -> fastcat and cat -> slowcat. It breaks an eval.mjs test too.

[felixroos]

just migrated all the tunes + tutorial snippets to new cat behaviour