[PD] [inlet], [outlet].

[Krzysztof Czaja]

hi again,

Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
...
> so [t a] wraps the float in a one-element list, which makes a difference

true (as always).  Same for rejection outlet of [route], btw.

I think there is a convention of 'float 99' and 'list 99' being
the same thing (also 'symbol dog' and 'list dog', likewise 'bang'
and empty 'list').

If an object expects only a float, or only a list, it simply cannot
tell, whether it has been sent 'float 99' or 'list 99'.  But if an
object has both methods declared (or only the 'anything' method),
it can, so it is only by a convention, that there should not be any
differentiation of behaviour.

Well, the typing rules in Pd are a bit tricky indeed, perhaps
they are explained in some place (IOhannes' docs?), I do not
know...

...
> but also to improve compatibility with jMax. One of my .jmax files doesn't
> convert to .pd _because_ of this. I guess I'm stuck with adding code to
> the converter to reorder the positions of [inlet] objects anyway. This may
> screw the layout but it's not like the layout of converted patches is not
> already quite screwed.

very much true -- same about importing poly~ized msp abstractions.

Krzysztof