[PD] Understanding Selectors, Atoms, Lists ...

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Wed Apr 19 18:48:47 CEST 2006


On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Sciss wrote:

> pack accepts a "metasymbol" as first inlet (so i *can* omit the selector
> here), but only a "symbol" as second inlet. i experience this behaviour
> with many objects. no ?

I believe that this is a serious misfeature of Pd: interpreting a lone
selector as a symbol introduces exceptions because some selectors already
mean something else. "set" isn't like "symbol set", "bang" isn't like
"symbol bang", "symbol" isn't like "symbol symbol", "float" isn't like
"symbol float" (and then some more, depending on which object you send
to). Also, if lone selector messages weren't accepted as if they were
symbol messages, there would be less confusion between those two things.

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