[PD] Understanding Selectors, Atoms, Lists ...
Krzysztof Czaja
czaja at chopin.edu.pl
Sun Apr 23 01:17:47 CEST 2006
Frank Barknecht wrote:
...
>>there seems to be no logic whether one has can use a message "as
>>such" and when one has to prepend the "symbol" selector. also there
>>seems to be no logic whether an object outputs a list "as such" or
>>with a prepended "list" selector ; like [pack] accepts a symbol
>>without "symbol" in the left inlet, but not in the right inlet ; it
>>will output a list prepended by "list" ; if i put this list into
>>[zl], the list-prefix is stripped.
>
>
> I consider this a bug of [zl]. With newer Pd's you should use [list]
a feature not a bug! Pd message system was designed for signal
processing control, not for symbolic processing of any sort.
zl is just a version of the ``list ops'' Max library by James
McCartney. Thus, in a sense, it was obsoleted first by pyrite,
then by sc...
Krzysztof
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