[PD-dev] First attempt at "list" object uploaded

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Guenter Geiger hat gesagt: // Guenter Geiger wrote:

> Let me explain:
> In order to convert lists to messages I normally use message boxes with
> $ arguments. E.g if I send a list "foo 2" to  [set $1 $2( it will
> construct a message that reads [set foo 2(,
> similar with a 3 element list and $1,$2,$3.
> Now, my proposal is to introduce a $@ dollar symbol which accepts
> lists of any length, this way it is not necessary to know the
> length of a list before converting it into a message.

However with the new list processing objects the need to to use
something like $@ will show up much less often because [list prepend
set]---[list trim] would be the same as [set $@( in almost every case.
The only exception I can think of currently are "send"-messages, i.e.
those starting with ";". Still I agree, that $@ would be a useful
feature, let alone to save some typing: [set $@( is much shorter than
[set $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9 $10 $11 $12 $13 $14 $15 $16 $17 $18(

Ciao
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