[PD-dev] proposed new "list" object

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jul 21, 2005, at 4:02 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> [int] isn't an atom type either, and it behaves the same as [f],  
>> [symbol], and
>> [pointer].  I think that the storage type should be consistent and  
>> need not
>> only apply to atoms.  [anything] would also be handy.
>
> Hey, btw, [anything] could be exactly like list except that it would  
> treat
> the selector as part of the list it is processing. What do you think of
> this?

That would be a handy object, though I am not sure that it should  
called [anything].  I have to look at how other objects like [trigger]  
and [route] handle "anything".  It should be consistent with the other  
key objects.

> Btw, one thing that would be different between [list],[anything] vs the
> four other, is that you can't put initial object content of the former  
> in
> the constructor: you can't write [list 1 2 3] to mean [list]<-"1 2
> 3"<-[loadbang] because [list] already reserves $1 for another purpose.

I assume you mean Miller's proposed [list].  If Miller's proposed  
functionality was split into individual objects, and [list] made into a  
storage object, then [list 1 2 3] would work.  That makes the most  
sense to me.

.hc

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