[PD] unexpected behaviour in [route]

[Lorenzo Sutton]

Hi,

I took the liberty to expand the OP's patch hopefully clearing some 
doubts (warning fairly wide window).

Lorenzo

Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>
>> "Route checks the first element of a message against each of its 
>> arguments, [...] The part before the comma is wrong-- that's not how 
>> [route] works.  The reality is: 1) If the first arg is a symbol atom, 
>> then [route] is put in "selector" mode and checks the selector 
>> against its arguments.
>
> Yeah, that's the sort of confusion that the original manual would 
> brew, and then it led to things like Nova (by Tim Blechmann) and 
> Zengarden, both of which don't even have selectors internally.
>
> Zengarden's $1 in message boxes is not compatible with Pd's : in 
> message "hello world", "symbol $1" says "symbol hello" instead of 
> "symbol world".
>
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