[PD-dev] [ pure-data-Bugs-1416539 ] [print] behaves oddly with numeric symbols

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Bugs item #1416539, was opened at 2006-01-27 10:34
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: [print] behaves oddly with numeric symbols

Initial Comment:

[symbol 5(
|
[print]

produces:  "symbol"



[5]
|
[symbol]
|
[print]

produces: "symbol float"

See attached pd patch.

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Comment By: Mathieu Bouchard (matju)
Date: 2006-01-29 23:30

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a [symbol 5( does not produce a symbol atom whose contents 
is "5"; instead it's a garbage message, as the special 
selectors float/symbol/pointer often imply that the $1 is 
of type A_FLOAT/A_SYMBOL/A_POINTER and so in various 
situation the value will be replaced by a dummy value, such 
as either the empty string symbol (&s_) or the "float" 
symbol (&s_float). 
 
Compare with this: 
 
[53( 
 | 
[makefilename %c] 
 | 
[print] 
 
which produces a message whose $1 is a A_SYMBOL and so 
prints "symbol 5". 
 

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