On Sun, 6 Aug 2006, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
[symbol]
Wow, thanks, this does make sense now. I still don't grasp why and when Pd seems to arbitrarily insert the word "symbol" or "list" instead of treating the symbol as a meta-message...
This is not a behaviour defined by the pd kernel, it's a behaviour defined by [symbol].
[symbol] has a wildcard method (aka "anything") which picks up any lone selector (except the ones that the wildcard can't catch, of course) and treats it as a symbol.
Personally, I don't like that behaviour, because it doesn't work for all possible selectors, and tends to confuse people on what a selector is.
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