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<div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">> for instance, [42(--[list]--[$1( will give 42 not float,</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">> similarly [symbol crabs(--[list]--[$1( will give crabs not symbol </font></div><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">> Also it seems reasonable to just have 1 object box for querying a selector, </font></div><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">> which is a main element of the pd</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> message environment.</font></div><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">That makes sense.</font></div><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Are you after the literal selector in this case, or the one that the documentation </font></div><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">implies should be there? For example, if I feed a list with a single floatarg </font></div><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">(e.g., "list 42") to [selector] does it tell me the selector is "float" or "list"?<br></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font>
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<div style="color:black;font-size:13px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"></div><div style="color:black;font-size:13px;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">>></font><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">I don't understand what the word "solution" means here. If users </span></div>
<div style="color:black;font-size:13px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">have repeatedly requested msg box $0 to expand to glist's </div>
<div style="color:black;font-size:13px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">ce_dollarzero, why would Pd Vanilla give $0 in msg boxes a </div>
<div style="color:black;font-size:13px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">different function that is incompatible with object box $0?</div></div>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">> here "solution" means a good way to resolve $0 in message boxes..</font></div>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">I don't think what users request is necessarily the end all of reasons to implement a feature in a language..</font></div></div><div id="ydp1cd32817yiv4470356515AOLMsgPart_2_3954be81-d021-411e-a84f-45e6fed2f217"><br></div><div id="ydp1cd32817yiv4470356515AOLMsgPart_2_3954be81-d021-411e-a84f-45e6fed2f217">$0 in message boxes may be the most often requested feature for Pd. </div><div id="ydp1cd32817yiv4470356515AOLMsgPart_2_3954be81-d021-411e-a84f-45e6fed2f217">That certainly doesn't mean it has to be implemented.</div><div id="ydp1cd32817yiv4470356515AOLMsgPart_2_3954be81-d021-411e-a84f-45e6fed2f217"><br></div><div id="ydp1cd32817yiv4470356515AOLMsgPart_2_3954be81-d021-411e-a84f-45e6fed2f217">But filling $0 with something completely unrelated is probably a good way </div><div id="ydp1cd32817yiv4470356515AOLMsgPart_2_3954be81-d021-411e-a84f-45e6fed2f217">to irritate your userbase for very little gain.<br></div><div id="ydp1cd32817yiv4470356515AOLMsgPart_2_3954be81-d021-411e-a84f-45e6fed2f217"><br></div><div id="ydp1cd32817yiv4470356515AOLMsgPart_2_3954be81-d021-411e-a84f-45e6fed2f217">-Jonathan<br></div><div id="ydp1cd32817yiv4470356515AOLMsgPart_2_3954be81-d021-411e-a84f-45e6fed2f217"><br></div><div id="ydp1cd32817yiv4470356515AOLMsgPart_2_3954be81-d021-411e-a84f-45e6fed2f217"><br></div><div id="ydp1cd32817yiv4470356515AOLMsgPart_2_3954be81-d021-411e-a84f-45e6fed2f217"><br></div><div id="ydp1cd32817yiv4470356515AOLMsgPart_2_3954be81-d021-411e-a84f-45e6fed2f217"><br><div class="ydp1cd32817yiv4470356515yqt8492347081" id="ydp1cd32817yiv4470356515yqtfd38685">
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