[PD] $1, message objects and pdsend

[simon wise]

On 27 Mar 2005, at 8:09 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> As I say above, it's not ignored, but the message produced is not
> considered to be a list anymore. Furthermore, the message-type is never
> accessible as $1, because $1 is the start of the message-content.
>

yes, all is as it should be - I was only recommending an addition to 
the help files to make it clear, since it took me a while to figure out 
what was happening. Maybe the example attached could be added to these 
files:

    doc/2.control.examples/10.more.messages.pd
    doc/5.reference/help-message.pd

> You may need a [prepend] object. There are several ones provided by
> different libraries.
>

but is there a simple way to [prepend] without using external 
libraries? I'm making the subpatch to put in patches I'm sharing with 
others, so I would like to have Gem as the only external needed beyond 
the standard distribution.

thanks

simon

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