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

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, Jonathan Wilkes 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?

If you send "list stuff" or "list zzz" to [symbol] you don't get "list", 
you get "stuff" or "zzz".

In light of what I wrote above, you'd actually need [route bang symbol 
float] to correctly convert lists with one float element.

What's the correct selector of a 1-element list?

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