[PD] select issues

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 30, 2007, at 3:10 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
>
>> I agree with Martin.  [route] is meant for lists,
>
> There's something really weird about [route] (as it is in 0.40): It  
> will only route selectors if I don't give any float arguments, but  
> will only route a list's $1 if I give any float arguments. Can  
> anyone confirm and explain this? The help file claims one should  
> not mix floats and symbols, but [route] does not reject it, and  
> then clearly does something useful that can't be done any other  
> easy way.
>

Could you post a patch that demonstrates this?  It would make it  
clearer.  Plus it would be good to add it to the collection of  
patches that illustrate things like this:

http://pure-data.cvs.sourceforge.net/pure-data/doc/additional/ 
messageoddness/

.hc


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