Hi,
I just found out that the new [list length] from Pd-0.40 counts the length of messages slightly unusual. Counting the elements in a meta-message like "walk the dog" will leave out the first element, "walk" in the example, and give a result of 2. The proper list message "list walk the dog" however will count as 3.
This gets even more confusing with the other example in the list-help.pd file: "1 x y" has a list-length of 3, however "x 1 y" only has a list-length of 2.
And it gets quite nasty with an argument-less meta-message like "set", which has a list-length of 0 just like the "real" empty list: a "bang"-message.
I can see the logic behind this (counting only the arguments to a message but not the selector). But as all other [list] objects besides [list trim] automatically convert incoming meta-messages to list-messages I think I would expect the same to happen for [list length].
Ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__