Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Except [list prepend], which I consider a stranger prefix. :) I
still prefer [cyclone/prepend] since you don't need to add [list
trim] to keep things in the same format they came in as (at least for
the things I seem to do regularly.)
As main author of [list]-abs I'm pretty biased but to me [list prepend] is way superior and easier to understand than using Max/Cyclone's [prepend]. The main reason is that [list] objects convert everything to a proper list-message and after that conversion you can basically completely forget and ignore the difference between meta-messages and list-messages in Pd - because you're left with list-messages *only*. (As we all know, this difference is a source for confusion to many beginning Pd users.)
Coding the [list]-abs with just the Max'ish prepend would be horrible and you'd need to insert lots of [list] objects just to convert meta-messages ino list-space. With the list-family it's really easy: Just use [list], work in a space of proper list-messages, and in the end maybe throw in a "list trim" if you really need a meta-message.
Ciao
Frank