[PD] Understanding Selectors, Atoms, Lists ...

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Mathieu Bouchard hat gesagt: // Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> > [list] in pd-0.39 works great for adding proper selectors, btw. because
> > by design it adds a list-selector and the message will be auto-converted
> > by Pd to a proper symbol-message later, if the incoming message just
> > contained one non-float element.
> 
> well that means that [list] can't support any methods other than 
> "anything", at the risk of causing exceptions, and that's exactly what 
> filing a bug report against [pack] would be about... or am I missing 
> anything?

I'm not sure I understand what you mean here: [list] accepts
meta-messages as well as float-, symbol- and bang-messages and
pointers. They all will be converted to "list INPUT" at the outlet. I
think, this is quite okay, very useful and there's no need for a bug
report. 

But [list] also accepts other kinds of message, for example GemLists,
which are converted to something that prints: 

print: list gem_state (pointer) (pointer)

and which is probably useless. Is that, what you mean by "risk of
causing exceptions"?

Ciao
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