On Feb 6, 2006, at 2:05 PM, Martin Peach wrote:
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Here are some attempts at definitions:
list: a series of 2 or more elements whose first element is either
the selector "list", or a float, which causes the "list" selector to
be implied. A 0-element list is a bang, a 1-element list is either
a float or a symbol, are there any exceptions where a 0- or
1-element lists actually exists? I suppose only in a message box....
selector series: a series of 2 or more elements whose first element
is neither the selector "list" nor a numeric element. But it needs
a better term.I would call that an implicit list, and to be consistent with the way
float works, it should have list prepended to it by pd and otherwise
become indistinguishable from list.
But its not a list because objects that deal with lists say so. "list"
is a keyword in Pd, so we need to define these things using other
words. Try this to see what I mean:
[one 2 three four( | [route list]
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