[Pd] Infernal symbols

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Sun, 6 Aug 2006, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:

>> > [symbol]
>
> Wow, thanks, this does make sense now.
> I still don't grasp why and when Pd seems to arbitrarily insert the
> word "symbol" or "list" instead of treating the symbol as a
> meta-message...

This is not a behaviour defined by the pd kernel, it's a behaviour defined 
by [symbol].

[symbol] has a wildcard method (aka "anything") which picks up any lone 
selector (except the ones that the wildcard can't catch, of course) and 
treats it as a symbol.

Personally, I don't like that behaviour, because it doesn't work for all 
possible selectors, and tends to confuse people on what a selector is.

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