[PD] bang vs empty list

[Jonathan Wilkes]

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> From: Ivica Ico Bukvic <ico at vt.edu>
> To: pd-list at iem.at
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> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 7:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] bang vs empty list
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> BTW, the only regression with this is that [select] object complains it does not 
> understand "bang."

Pd's [select] only understands symbol and float messages.  If you make it
accept bangs then you create an inconsistency where both
"symbol bang" and "bang" are matched by [sel bang].

-Jonathan

> I've patched it so that when it receives a bang 
> it redirects it to sel1_symbol and sel2_symbol with a gensym("bang"). 
> This also means that [sel b] would not work for bangs, but [sel bang] will. I 
> think that makes sense since someone might want to select letter "b."
> 
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