[PD] "popping" from - and prepending to - a generic message

[Chris McCormick]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 02:25:56AM +0100, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote:
> Is there a reasonably stright-forward way in pd-proper (I mean, without 
> externals) to do either of the following two things?
> 1) Removing the first element of a message (NOT necessarily a list) and 
> returning the rest of the message
> 2) Prepending a symbol or number to a message

It doesn't matter if it's a list or not, you can still use [list] to
turn it into a list, do a pre-pending or pre-unpending and then use
[list trim] to turn it back into a message.

Best,

Chris.

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