[PD] [pool] by Thomas Grill : slight problem

[Thomas Grill]

Hi Alexander,
thanks for your report!
That was a bug. You can get the fixed version from cvs tomorrow morning CET.

best greetings,
Thomas

----- Original Message -----
From: "01ek" <01ek at sat.qc.ca>
To: <pd-list at iem.kug.ac.at>
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 12:48 AM
Subject: [PD] [pool] by Thomas Grill : slight problem


Hello.

I am using the [pool] hierarchical storage object. for some reason, when my
stored lists in any data key begin with _-1_, the and I use the GET message
to read it, the value outlet gives me : list -1 0 0 0 0 .....

Instead of the list beginning with -1, as it is stored in the .dat file, the
symbol _list_ is prepended to the actual value stored. It behaves similarly
when the stored list begins with any negative integer. But when it begins
with any positive integer or any float (positive or neagative) the value
comes out as stored (with no prepend of the symbol "list").

Also, this only occurs when the data is read from the .dat file, not when
the value of a key is set and retreived from ram.

This is a problem, because I patch the value outlet to an [unpack] object
and it makes a difference if the first item in the list is a symbol or a
float.

am I doing something wrong? if not, is this a bug? if not, how do I work
around it? is there a way to chop off the first atom in a message depending
if is a symbol or a float?

thanks a lot.
Alexander