I've got some ideas for a Pd abstraction to Pd external compiler, and I've been playing with implementing some of them in Java. Some things I would like to know:

Documentation on the .pd file format, there must be a parser in the source code somewhere but I haven't looked hard enough I guess.

Are symbols interned? ie, can you compare pointers for equality rather than using strcmp?

Unrelated, but I find this weird: what is the difference between the message "noteon 60 64" and the message "list noteon 60 64"? They are not identical because [route] sorts them differently, so I wonder what the purpose of the list selector is.

Claude

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