On Apr 20, 2006, at 10:44 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo, hard off hat gesagt: // hard off wrote:
i agree that these things are not objects and not lists, so "meta message" sounds perfect to describe them.
i agree too, that these things are neither objects nor lists,
however to my ears "message" sounds even more perfect than "meta message" or "message not of the bang-, float-, symbol- and list-type"
Except that we need to distinguish between symbolic atoms and
symbolic messages, since they are not the same thing, as the pack
example illustrates.
I think that "data messages" and "control messages" are a
possibility... meta messages just sounds to vague to me.
.hc
Btw: I often use a little abstraction called "prepent.pd" with
pd-0.39, which will generate meta messages with a certain selector. Inside it just consists of a mix of "prepend" and "trim" => "prepent":prepent.pd:
[inlet] [inlet] | | [list prepend $1] | [list trim] | [oulet]
I use this for example in front of netsend:
[prepent send] | [netsend]
indeed this is a very useful thing. however, i (personally) use 2 objects instead of 1 (not that much of a gain...)
mf.asdr. IOhannes
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