[PD-dev] gem vs. mrpeach strings?

[Bryan Jurish]

morning all,

On 2007-11-09 21:28:57, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> appears to
have written:
> Martin Peach wrote:
>> is caused when the expected arguments to text2d_String don't match the 
>> type.
>> It has absolutely nothing to do with the existence of a string/blob type 
>> unless text2dstring wants string/blob arguments.
> 
> the [text3d]... objects expect a "string" message with pdstrings 
> (according to moocows stuff).
> your string-patch adds a special message "string" for your strings.
> i think that is where the problem comes in: A_GIMME != A_STRING

not having followed this thread too closely, i feel somewhat loathe to
enter it now; i just wanted to explicitly renounce any and all claims to
the selector "string" for pdstring-style lists of floats in favor of
Martin's string atoms.  nothing i've done with (pdstring+gem) has gotten
beyond the sandbox stage, so changing selectors (e.g. to "asciilist",
"pdstring", whatever) for list-of-floats messages would suffice i think.
 [string2any] itself doesn't care about selectors, and [any2string]
currently just spits out a "list", so i'm pretty flexible...

marmosets,
	Bryan

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