>> for instance, [42(--[list]--[$1( will give 42 not float,
>> similarly [symbol crabs(--[list]--[$1( will give crabs not symbol
> >Also it seems reasonable to just have 1 object box for querying a selector,
> >which is a main element of the pd message environment.
>That makes sense.
>Are you after the literal selector in this case, or the one that the documentation
>implies should be there? For example, if I feed a list with a single floatarg
>(e.g., "list 42") to [selector] does it tell me the selector is "float" or "list"?
I would say whatever route would do with it, in this case float
-Seb