[PD] dealing with arguments and inlets

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> Ok, I'm convinced on that point, [list_argument] should use list.  I  
> support backwards compatibility only if it doesn't affect forward  
> compatibility.  My concern is that since [list] is new an untested, 

Objection, judge! ;) It isn't untested: At least in my patches I use
it all the time since it first appeared in Pd. It never crashed Pd, it
always does, what it is supposed to do and I use it a lot more often
than I use for example [symbol]. Plus: the [list]-abs collection could
be seen as a comprehensive test-suite just for [list], which is
something, many other objects don't have yet.

> But I still think that [any_argument] that outputs a non-symbol is  
> useful too.  

But that's easy to achieve using [list trim], if needed. Of course one
could make another abstraction which includes this, like
[any|list_argument_trimmed] but I really don't see this as a necessity.

Ciao
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