Hallo, Mathieu Bouchard hat gesagt: // Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
There are "atom messages" which is any message that has the "list" selector and one argument, or anything that can be cast to/from it. This includes messages with "float" "symbol" "pointer" selectors.
There are "listlike messages" which may be any message that has the "list" selector or can be cast to/from it. This includes atom messages and the bang message.
The rest may be called "nonlistlike messages" and everything together may be called "messages".
Your "non-symbol-symbol" could be called "nonlistlike messages without arguments" (or "messages without arguments" in order to include bang), but it wouldn't have that Alice-in-Wonderland sound that "non-symbol-symbol" has.
But "Alice in Wonderland" is what I'm aiming for! ;)
Nevertheless I think, the nomenclature you suggest sounds very reasonable.
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