hello
But as far as I can tell, [list] doesn't do any conversion at its outlet--
everything it outputs will have the selector "list", and it's up to other objects like [route] to do any conversion they deem necessary.
For example, take the bug with sigbinops:
[put anything you want in this message box( | [list] | [+~ ]
error: inlet: expected 'signal' but got 'list'
[1, 1 2, a, a b, a 2 b ( | [list ] | [print ]
gives the following (0.42-5):
###### print: 1 print: 1 2 print: symbol a print: list a b print: list a 2 b ######
so [list ] does some kind of conversion. what i don't understand is why there is no selector printed in the first two messages, where only numbers are present.
anyways, you should provide [+~ ] operator with an argument if you want it to expect messsages instead of a signal (check help patch) :-)
ciao