[PD] select issues

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Thu Nov 29 22:37:03 CET 2007


Hallo,
Roman Haefeli hat gesagt: // Roman Haefeli wrote:

> hm. i'd rather say, that the error messages it outputs are inconsistent.
> the help-file says, that it accepts numbers and symbols. i'd expect it
> to output an error, whenever a non-symbol or non-number message is
> received. however, what it does, is quite 'funny', if not to say
> 'frivolous':
>  
> sending messages and corresponding error messages:
> 
> [select three]
> 'list one 2'	error: inlet: no method for 'float'
> 'list one two'	no error
> 'symbol one'	no error
> '3'		no error
> 'one'		error: select: no method for 'one'
> 'bang'		error: select: no method for 'bang
> 
> [select 3]
> 'list one 2'	no error
> 'list one two'	error: inlet: no method for 'symbol'
> 'symbol one'	no error
> '3'		no error
> 'one'		error: select: no method for 'one'
> 'bang'		error: select: no method for 'bang

[select] distributes lists over its inlets, so this behaviour looks
correct. See my other mail.

Ciao
-- 
 Frank Barknecht                                     _ ______footils.org__




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