[PD] select backward compatibility
Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans at eds.org
Thu Sep 6 01:19:35 CEST 2007
On Sep 5, 2007, at 1:48 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> On Sep 5, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>
> In [select] or in [t a]? And is it really a bug?
It's a bug in the error message, at the very least. This stuff needs
to be consistent, otherwise it makes it hard to understand and
debug. If [list( is equal to [bang( then it always needs to be equal
to [bang(. Right now, it is only sometimes equal to [bang(
Try defining the current behavior, then I think it's more clearly a
bug. "An empty [list( is a bang unless you are sending to the right
inlet of some objects, like [select]."
.hc
>
> Ciao
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