On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Frank Barknecht wrote:
The selector tells Pd what kind ob data it should expect.
The selector tells Pd which method to select.
However, four selectors have predecided signatures:
bang : no arguments float : 1 A_FLOAT symbol : 1 A_SYMBOL pointer : 1 A_POINTER
Outside of this, selectors typically don't indicate kinds of data: instead they indicate which action should happen or which attribute should be modified, because those are the things that distinguish one method from another.
Those kinds of messages sometimes are called "meta-messages".
They are also sometimes called "anythings" or "anything elses" or just "messages" or...
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