[PD] Finding "$0" and dealing with it in messages
Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans at at.or.at
Tue Nov 24 23:32:54 CET 2009
On Nov 24, 2009, at 10:01 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> Jonathan Wilkes hat gesagt: // Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>
>> Well, if you send the message "list 7" to [symbol] it will output
>> "symbol list," when, according to all_about_data_types.pd, it ought
>> to
>> output "symbol float."
>
> Here (Pd version 0.42.4) [symbol], the object box, outputs "symbol
> list".
> However [symbol\, the graphical atom, shows "float". Probably some
> artifact of
> automatic converson going on behind our backs. A third possibility
> would be to
> bail out with an error "No message for list/float". I would prefer
> this
> behaviour. It's consistent with the behaviour of [float] receiving a
> "list abc"
> message.
>
> Regarding all_about_data_types.pd: Personally I wouldn't trust this
> patch.
Its a patch with examples, if you don't trust the examples, then that
seems to mean you don't trust Pd ;)
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