[PD] Re: [PD-dev] Re: prepend w/ set message - ignore

Mathieu Bouchard matju at sympatico.ca
Sat Jan 8 07:49:24 CET 2005


On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Krzysztof Czaja wrote:

> still marked in my archive is this:
> Miller Puckette wrote:
>  > This seems wrong.  Also, I think "trigger list" should be putting
>  > out a bang (empty list) instead of a "0".  But I should go find out
>  > what Max does for these...!
>  > On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 05:42:03AM +0200, Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu wrote:
>  >>Hi.
>  >>Sending a bang to a "trigger anything" object I get 0.

Yes, and I also have reported that as a bug back in 2002 or 2003.

This is also why I used [fork] (an external I cloned from jMax) to do my
work, because it avoids the above behaviour, and preserves single-element
lists in "anything". Nowadays I mostly use [t a a] to make my patches more
familiar to PureData users, but frankly, I think [fork] is right and [t a
a] is wrong, and I still use [fork] when I want to make sure my messages
aren't altered.

Besides, GridFlow still distinguishes between a single-element list (casts
to one-dimensional grid) and a plain float (casts to zero-dimensional
grid), and I'll change that behaviour only if really forced to, because
when I have to choose between

1. between integration of GridFlow into Pd
2. internal consistency of GridFlow

I prefer the latter.

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