Doc: PlazyenvirN

Questions
1

Hi all

I am struggling to wrap my head around this example from the doc for PlazyenvirN:

(
f = { arg g=0, h=0, dur=1;
    Pbind(\degree, Pseq([g, g, h, g, h], 2), \dur, Pseries(dur, 0.1))
};
// compare:
a = Pchain(PlazyEnvirN(f), (g: [1, 2], h: 3, dur:0.2)).trace(\degree).asStream;
c = Pchain(Plazy(f), (g: [1, 2], h: 3, dur:0.2)).asStream;
)

a.nextN(4);
c.nextN(4); // no degrees, because stream ends

Obviously I don’t quite understand how PlazyenvirN works.
I tried a.next, which gives these results:

1
-> ( 'degree': 1, 'dur': 0.2, 'h': 3, 'delta': 0.0, 
  'g': [ 1, 2 ] )
2
-> ( 'degree': 2, 'dur': 0.2, 'h': 3, 'delta': 0.2, 
  'g': [ 1, 2 ] )
1
-> ( 'degree': 1, 'dur': 0.3, 'h': 3, 'delta': 0.0, 
  'g': [ 1, 2 ] )
2
-> ( 'degree': 2, 'dur': 0.3, 'h': 3, 'delta': 0.3, 
  'g': [ 1, 2 ] )

I would have expected that this “(g: [1, 2], h: 3, dur:0.2)” would be “assigned” to the f function and to see something related to “h” as a third call of next. And where are these dur and delta values coming from?

Thanks for clarification!

2

PlazyEnvirN appears to parallel-ize arrays – the [1, 2] for g gets split out into two separate Pbind patterns, and then these are combined using Ppar.

So the resulting Ppar should initially produce degree 1 from one Pbind, and degree 2 from the other, simultaneously. But, because they come from different patterns, they must be separate events. “Simultaneously,” then, is delta: 0.0.

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