[PD] here I go again..dynamic abstractions

[Jack]

There is already [route] to get the selectors bang, symbol, list,  
float and only 'other'. But it would be nice to have something like  
this :

[33 hello -4.5 world(
|
[$0(
|
[print]

and get print: list
not 0 as now

or

[open mytext.txt 45(
|
[$0(
|
[print]

and get print: open
not 0 as now
(and nor 'other' as does [route])

So the first element is $0, the second is $1, etc.
I think it is not so difficult to understand for a beginner because  
it's logical.
We must explain that [33 hello 4.5 world( is a list without the word  
list in the message because the message begin by a number and has  
several elements : it is the same [list 33 hello 4.5 world(. Idem for  
float.
What do you think ?
++

Jack


Le 10 févr. 09 à 17:45, Mathieu Bouchard a écrit :

> On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>
>> Messages don't have anything comparable to the canvas' $0.
>> A possible alternative use for $0 in messages would be the selector
>> ("list", "symbol", ...) as that is the thing before $1, but
>> implementing that could be even more confusing to beginners.
>
> Why would that be confusing to beginners?
>
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