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+
+// How to emulate Faust's seq, par, sum.
+// x(k) is assumed to yield the kth signal.
+
+xseq(1,x) = x(0);
+xseq(n,x) = xseq(n-1,x) : x(n-1);
+
+xpar(1,x) = x(0);
+xpar(n,x) = xpar(n-1,x) , x(n-1);
+
+xsum(1,x) = x(0);
+xsum(n,x) = xsum(n-1,x) + x(n-1);
+
+// These are all very similar. Abstracting
+// on the binary "accumulator" function, we
+// get the familiar fold(-left) function:
+
+fold(1,f,x) = x(0);
+fold(n,f,x) = f(fold(n-1,f,x),x(n-1));
+
+// Now seq, par, sum can be defined as:
+
+fseq(n) = fold(n,\(x,y).(x:y));
+fpar(n) = fold(n,\(x,y).(x,y));
+fsum(n) = fold(n,+);
+fprod(n) = fold(n,*);
+
+// Often it is more convenient to specify
+// parameters as a Faust tuple. We can match
+// against the (xs,x) pattern to decompose
+// these.
+
+vfold(f,(xs,x)) = f(vfold(f,xs),x);
+vfold(f,x) = x;
+
+// Tuple version of seq, par, sum:
+
+vseq = vfold(\(x,y).(x:y));
+vpar = vfold(\(x,y).(x,y));
+vsum = vfold(+);
+vprod = vfold(*);
+
+// Examples:
+
+import("music.lib");
+f0 = 440;
+a(0) = 1;
+a(1) = 0.5;
+a(2) = 0.3;
+h(i) = a(i)*osc((i+1)*f0);
+
+// sums
+//process = xsum(3,h);
+//process = fsum(3,h);
+//process = vsum((h(0),h(1),h(2)));
+
+reverse (x:y) = reverse(y):reverse(x);
+reverse(x) = x;
+
+// sequences from tuples (parallel -> serial)
+process = reverse(vseq((sin,cos,tan)));