Re: [PD] definitions of data types

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

Here are some attempts at definitions:

list: a series of 2 or more elements whose first element is either the selector "list", or a float, which causes the "list" selector to be implied. A 0-element list is a bang, a 1-element list is either a float or a symbol, are there any exceptions where a 0- or 1-element lists actually exists? I suppose only in a message box.

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selector series: a series of 2 or more elements whose first element is neither the selector "list" nor a numeric element. But it needs a better term.

I would call that an implicit list, and to be consistent with the way float works, it should have list prepended to it by pd and otherwise become indistinguishable from list.

Martin