[PD-dev] Is this possible - List input to inlets other than the leftmost...

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Andy Farnell wrote:

> Because of the distribution behaviour? A param list {p1, p2, p3} on the 
> leftmost gets distributed over inlets {i1, i2, i3}. If you sent a list 
> to i2 then how would it map? p1->i2, p2->i3... No doubt you could make 
> your object treat lists as you like, but it would have to break this 
> established behaviour I guess.

Not all built-in classes follow the protocol of distributing over inlets. 
[list] objects don't. By making [list] objects different than the others, 
pd becomes less consistent, but Pd's API is not designed to accept the new 
atom type that would allow distinguishing between a list of arguments and 
a list that works like an atom (which could distribute over inlets if 
there were two atomic lists passed in one argument list).

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