On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Frank Barknecht wrote:
I'm still undecided if "$@" or "$*" would be the preferred name, though. Both mean similar things in bash, but maybe $* would be easier to understand for the common Pd user, as the asterisk is in use not only in bash, but as a wildcard character in general.
If you are not against introducing nested lists later on, and prefer staying close to bash than not, then $@ should be the one that expands the complete arglist inserted as separate arguments. The $* should be reserved for expands the arglist as one argument of type A_LIST (nested list).
(Btw, do OSX users generally know what's a * wildcard?)
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