[PD-dev] overriding "internals"

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> probably because of [append] already exists?
> 
> Ok, but you can use a different word.  Why do these things need a  
> special syntax of a meta object and then another selector?
> 
> Also consider [trim].  If [list trim] will trim "symbol" from a  
> symbol message, then it's not doing anything with lists.


i think it is the other way round: a symbol _is_ a list (with only 1 
element), the destinction between message "symbol bla" and "list bla" 
was weird in the first place and is now slowly going away.

otoh, this does not contradict you: if everything (that is: everything 
'ordinary', not special messages like [set bla("), then we don't 
necessarily need special objects called [list ...]


nevertheless, i don't know what we are currently discussing: [openpanel] 
is called [openpanel], [pd] is called [page], and [list trim] is called 
[list trim].

miller is unlikely to change that anytime soon (though i still would 
like him to add aliases [list/trim],...).



after all it is a language, and for the most part of it, you just have 
to learn the vocabulary.


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