[PD] select issues

[Martin Peach]

Claude Heiland-Allen wrote:
>
>Frank Barknecht wrote:
> > Hallo,
> > marius schebella hat gesagt: // marius schebella wrote:
> >
> >> got it. but it does not explain, the following:
> >> [select 1 2 3]
> >> has only one input. so no need to distribute anything.
> >
> > The list is still distributed, but only over one inlet now
>
>Why doesn't [select 1 2 3 4] have 5 inlets and 5 outlets?
>
>Wouldn't break old patches, but could be useful in some circumstances.

Maybe it would make more sense if [select] accepted messages like [set 5 4 3 
2( on its single inlet and rejected lists. [select]'s current method for 
list handling is just pd's default behaviour when an object has no list 
method of its own.

Martin