Frank Barknecht wrote: ...
there seems to be no logic whether one has can use a message "as
such" and when one has to prepend the "symbol" selector. also there
seems to be no logic whether an object outputs a list "as such" or
with a prepended "list" selector ; like [pack] accepts a symbol
without "symbol" in the left inlet, but not in the right inlet ; it
will output a list prepended by "list" ; if i put this list into
[zl], the list-prefix is stripped.I consider this a bug of [zl]. With newer Pd's you should use [list]
a feature not a bug! Pd message system was designed for signal processing control, not for symbolic processing of any sort.
zl is just a version of the ``list ops'' Max library by James McCartney. Thus, in a sense, it was obsoleted first by pyrite, then by sc...
Krzysztof