Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
probably because of [append] already exists?
Ok, but you can use a different word. Why do these things need a special syntax of a meta object and then another selector?
Also consider [trim]. If [list trim] will trim "symbol" from a symbol message, then it's not doing anything with lists.
i think it is the other way round: a symbol _is_ a list (with only 1 element), the destinction between message "symbol bla" and "list bla" was weird in the first place and is now slowly going away.
otoh, this does not contradict you: if everything (that is: everything 'ordinary', not special messages like [set bla("), then we don't necessarily need special objects called [list ...]
nevertheless, i don't know what we are currently discussing: [openpanel] is called [openpanel], [pd] is called [page], and [list trim] is called [list trim].
miller is unlikely to change that anytime soon (though i still would like him to add aliases [list/trim],...).
after all it is a language, and for the most part of it, you just have to learn the vocabulary.
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