[PD] $-Dollar sign variables instantiation

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Thu Jul 20 05:21:14 CEST 2006


On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> The selector tells Pd what kind ob data it should expect.

The selector tells Pd which method to select.

However, four selectors have predecided signatures:

   bang    : no arguments
   float   : 1 A_FLOAT
   symbol  : 1 A_SYMBOL
   pointer : 1 A_POINTER

Outside of this, selectors typically don't indicate kinds of data: 
instead they indicate which action should happen or which attribute 
should be modified, because those are the things that distinguish one 
method from another.

> Those kinds of messages sometimes are called "meta-messages".

They are also sometimes called "anythings" or "anything elses" or just 
"messages" or...

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