[PD] select issues

[Roman Haefeli]

On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 22:37 +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> 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.

thanks for clarification. once again i just forgot about this
distribution behaviour. makes perfectly sense to me now. everything is
in order and consistent.... aaaaah... nicee.......... ;-)

roman



		
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