zmoelnig@iem.at wrote:
Quoting Martin Peach martin.peach@sympatico.ca:
Aaargh... I was looking at an older version of [unpackOSC], before it was modified (zmoelnig's patch 1959417). I guess the best solution is to
sorry if i caused confusion here.
No problem, I had forgotten about that patch.
make [pipelist] accept lists without the list selector (aka meta-messages) then.
i agree.
OK, the latest [pipelist] in svn pipes lists as well as meta-messages.
I'm getting the feeling that list is becoming deprecated in favour of meta-messages, since the 'list' selector is redundant. Is that right?
no, it's just something different. a list is "only data", without a special meaning attached to it via a
selector. (implying: the selector puts the data into a special context)
...but isn't 'list' a selector as well? What is special about it apart from the existence of list methods in Pd? Couldn't one use outlet_anything for lists as well? It seems that outlet_list just prepends a 'list' selector to the rest of the atoms, and a list method on an inlet just strips it and passes the rest.
as i understand it, an OSC message is a kind of generic message
(meta-message) with a selector (the address) and the data (the rest). it is _not_ just a list that happens to have a symbol as the first argument.
Yes.
i hope it makes sense.
I'm getting there;)
Martin