[PD] Inlet Data types

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Wed, 1 Sep 2010, Leandro da Mota Damasceno wrote:

> Oh my god. So obvious that I couldn't see it... Damn! I guess it all 
> depends on how the things are taught to you,,, The help file doesn't 
> make that clear

bang is the same as an empty list, and appending or prepending to an empty 
list makes no change (except waste time making a copy the list without 
need for it).

I think that if everything was made that much explicit, the help files 
might become too large... every pd user ought to become used to a little 
more guessing and reasoning. and that's, for example, how things can 
differ from one teacher to another. It depends what is being documented, 
too. Maybe in the case of [list], a little extra sentence is the occasion 
to save a lot of time with very little effort, or maybe a big paragraph is 
the occasion to teach about guessing and reasoning, so that people can 
save even more time.

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