--- On Fri, 11/27/09, Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca wrote:
From: Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca Subject: Re: [PD] Finding "$0" and dealing with it in messages To: "Jonathan Wilkes" jancsika@yahoo.com Cc: "Roman Haefeli" reduzierer@yahoo.de, "Phil Stone" pkstone@ucdavis.edu, pd-list@iem.at Date: Friday, November 27, 2009, 6:23 PM On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
It doesn't work for those selectors: bang
symbol list
Why do you say it doesn't work for list?
because it doesn't.
Well, if you send the message "list 7" to [symbol] it
will output "symbol list," when, according to all_about_data_types.pd, it ought to output "symbol float." Other than this, are there instances where [symbol] doesn't work correctly with lists?
If you send "list stuff" or "list zzz" to [symbol] you don't get "list", you get "stuff" or "zzz".
But how does having [route bang symbol list] instead of just [route bang symbol] help you here? [route] will call "list stuff" a symbol, not a list.
In light of what I wrote above, you'd actually need [route bang symbol float] to correctly convert lists with one float element.
What's the correct selector of a 1-element list?
Hm, I'm so used to seeing one element lists automatically converted to floats or bangs (or pointers) by just about every object I use that I would assume [symbol] ought to say "symbol float" for [list 12( and "symbol symbol" for [list foo( . But then if the selector is supposed to be "list," what should the selector be for [list( ?
-Jonathan
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