[PD] select backward compatibility

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Sep 5, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hallo,
> Patrice Colet hat gesagt: // Patrice Colet wrote:
>
>>  Hello, I've updated on some computer pd-0.37 to 0.40, and passed  
>> a lot
>> of time to find out an error caused by [select], attached is the  
>> mistake
>>  I've found out in my old, huge, and ugly patch.
>>  With simple words, could you people make something with error  
>> messages
>> to not wasting hours of debbugging,
>> many thanks in advance for any effort in that way, :).
>
> You can only sent a float to the right inlet of a [select] initialized
> in float-mode ([select]s, that don't have a symbol as argument, are in
> float-mode). Sending a bang into the second inlet instead is an error.
> I admit that it's a bit strange, that a naked "bang" message gives a
> different error message (no method for "bang") than a bang sent
> through [t a] (no method for "list"), but otherwise the error message
> here is quite clear, isn't it? Empty lists are equivalent to bang.

Sounds like a bug to me, please submit it to the bug tracker

http://puredata.org/dev/bugtracker

.hc

>
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