hi miller, hi list ...
i came across this posting when searching my archive after benchmarking the pd message system ...
For prepend, at least, we could borrow an idea from Krzysztof and make a new "msg" object:
msg prepend msg append msg car msg cdr msg any
i'd request another msg mode (maybe called msg msg or something similar), that sends a fixed message on a bang. means |msg msg test| == |test(
i suppose this will be a speedup for messaging ... in my benchmarks the combination of |symbol test| and |unsymbol| was a lot faster that |test(
possibly the message_class code could be modified to improve the basic message handling, but i'm not really familiar with that part of pd and from what i saw, this it will require not only a few changes ...
cheers ... tim