[PD-dev] mystery type generated by [list trim]

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

That might be one solution when using [list trim], but this example  
actually shows a problem with the type system.  Things are supposed  
to be strictly typed, atoms are either floats, symbols, or pointers.   
This is an example of an atom that is none of the above.  That should  
not happen, its a bug somewhere.

I updated the example patch with a couple of more relevant examples:

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[select 1234] and [route 1234] don't know what to do with this thing  
either.

.hc

On Oct 28, 2006, at 8:57 AM, padawan12 wrote:

>
> Just checking it's not a problem with [makefilename], it's not.
> I'd expect an X from trimming any raw X, in other words [list trim]
> should do nothing to any data that doesn't have "list" at the
> start. Is that what you would expect?
>
> On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 18:51:37 -0400
> Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> A student just discovered this strange behavior.  Basically, if you
>> get something that generates a symbolic atom that has numeric data in
>> it, you can then create a mystery type by feeding that thru [list
>> trim].  Don't know exactly where the problem is, but something fishy
>> is going on.  My guess is that [list trim] should output a float.
>>
>> See attached patch:
>>
>>
>> <mystery_type_after_conversion-more.pd>
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