[PD] Finding "$0" and dealing with it in messages

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 22, 2009, at 1:34 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

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> --- On Mon, 11/16/09, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:
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>> From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
>> Subject: Re: [PD] Finding "$0" and dealing with it in messages
>> To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: "Roman Haefeli" <reduzierer at yahoo.de>, "Phil Stone" <pkstone at ucdavis.edu 
>> >, pd-list at iem.at
>> Date: Monday, November 16, 2009, 8:59 PM
>> On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Jonathan Wilkes
>> wrote:
>>> --- On Mon, 11/16/09, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
>> wrote:
>>>> It doesn't work for those selectors: bang symbol
>> list
>>> Why do you say it doesn't work for list?
>>
>> because it doesn't.
>
> Well, if you send the message "list 7" to [symbol] it will output
> "symbol list," when, according to all_about_data_types.pd, it ought to
> output "symbol float."  Other than this, are there instances where
> [symbol] doesn't work correctly with lists?

I think there are.  Anytime I find something like that, I make an  
example patch and add it to SVN.  I encourage others to add to this  
collection since they are quite helpful in thinking about how we can  
fix things to make them work easier:

https://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/pure-data/trunk/doc/additional/messageoddness

.hc

>>> As far as I can tell you just need [route bang
>> symbol], two message boxes, and a [symbol] object.
>> There's no need to protect the message boxes because
>> whatever is coming out of inlet 0 and 1 of [route] is either
>> a bang or a symbol, both of which will trigger the msg box's
>> output without changing its content.
>>
>> You are right, two [b] are extraneous. You still need [b]
>> to protect msgbox «symbol list» from [route list].
>
> In light of what I wrote above, you'd actually need
> [route bang symbol float] to correctly convert lists with one float
> element.

>
> -Jonathan
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