# Hi all,

# I want to distinguish different numbers. But these number are coming in symbol format. (I press numbers on my keyboard and get their symbol with [keyname], keyname outputs symbols out of its second outlet.)

# The help patch of [select] says that it compares the incoming signal with its creation arguments according to its first arguments type. If the first argument is a symbol, it expects symbols etc.

# But select can distinguish only symbols which are not symbols. (foo, dog, cat etc. :-) ) I sent these messages to [select] and only the second outlet (which is associated with symbol 10) has triggered. For any kind of number symbols select bangs the first number symbol creation arguments output.

|symbol 10(

| |symbol 20(

| /

[select foo 10 20]

| | |

[o] [o] [o]

bang!

bang!..

# Is this a bug, or do I something wrong?

# The help patch uses [sel dog cat foo 400] and the message |symbol 400( and that example hides this strangeness.

-ugur-