[PD] Weird behavior of [moocow/bytes2any], or not?

[Simon Iten]

another moocow question, if you don’t mind…

why does readdir on linux output filenames not in order? 16.* before 10.* for example?
on osx and windows i get the expected behaviour.

cheers

> On 24 Dec 2015, at 20:54, Bryan Jurish <moocow.bovine at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> moin Alexandros, 
> 
> looks like you're creating an "any" message with the selector "float", which iirc pd interprets as it does the output of a [float] object. without further arguments (the float value), the float's value defaults to zero.  if you really want the symbol "float", prefix it with the selector "symbol" or "list".
> 
> happy solstice,
>   Bryan / moocow
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Alexandros Drymonitis <adrcki at gmail.com <mailto:adrcki at gmail.com>> wrote:
> I'm trying several lists from symbols with [moocow/bytes2any] and the following behavior seems a bit strange to me.
> The following symbols, converted to numeral lists behave fine:
> a_float, a_string, string, a_bang, bang
> 
> The corresponding lists sent to [bytes2any] are:
> 97 95 102 108 111 97 116
> 97 95 115 116 114 105 110 103
> 115 116 114 105 110 103
> 97 95 98 97 110 103
> 98 97 110 103
> 
> If I send these lists to [bytes2any] it will output the correct messages (a_float, a_string, etc.). The symbol "float" though, which is converted to the list "102 108 11 97 116", when sent to [bytes2any] produces a 0 out the left outlet of the object.
> 
> I have attached a patch that demonstrates this. The symbols are converted to lists with [list fromsymbol]. I could use [list tosymbol] to create symbols from the lists, but I want to test [bytes2any] in this case.
> 
> Is this behavior expected or is it a bug?
> 
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