I am asking whether the string "fwd" in a message has a
special meaning to inlet.
You have hit a bug! "fwd" is internally used by signal inlets to forward messages to the (new) second outlet, but it accidentally broke "fwd" messages for non-signal inlets. I've just pushed a fix to the develop branch.

Christof

On 06.08.2020 19:31, matthew brandi wrote:
Dear people

In my role as village idiot, I am asking whether the string "fwd" in a message has a
special meaning to inlet.

Naively, I was expecting inlet to pass the string to the subpatch, but it seems not
to. See example patch attached.

Outlet behaves as I was expecting and inlet will pass "symbol fwd".

Clearly, I have failed to grasp something simple, but what?

In case this is version specific behaviour, I am using Pd 0.51.0 on Linux.

All the best

m

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