--- On Tue, 4/7/09, Frank Barknecht fbar@footils.org wrote:
From: Frank Barknecht fbar@footils.org Subject: Re: [PD] a story for Lists To: pd-list@iem.at Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 8:54 AM Hallo, Jonathan Wilkes hat gesagt: // Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
It wouldn't confuse anyone at all if there were no
meta-messages.
Then Pd objects would only be able to handle bang, float, list and symbol messages (and some selected others like Gem lists) - but no "set", "open", "read", "reset", "stop", "rewind", "start" or any other messages to call custom methods. Then you'd probably have to add separate inlets for each of these and that would be even worse. [textfile] would have 9 inlets. Good luck with memorizing these.
Oops, there was supposed to be a second part to that, which is a question: So why couldn't meta-messages all be lists, and whatever part of Pd it is that checks for meta-messages just checks the first item of the incoming list for "set", "add2", etc.?
-Jonathan
Ciao
Frank
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