[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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