[PD] bang vs empty list

[Ivica Bukvic]

To add to this, I cannot think of a scenario where you would want to
differentiate between bang versus symbol bang. Please feel free to convince
me otherwise.
On Mar 1, 2013 7:50 AM, "Ivica Bukvic" <ico at vt.edu> wrote:

> Yes, but it also prevents profuse errors on the console regarding how
> select does not understand things which may happen in complex patches under
> certain circumstances, and which previously were not reported.
> On Mar 1, 2013 3:29 AM, "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>
>> > From: Ivica Ico Bukvic <ico at vt.edu>
>> > To: pd-list at iem.at
>> > Cc:
>> > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 7:15 PM
>> > Subject: Re: [PD] bang vs empty list
>> >
>> > 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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