[PD] Inlet - Unexpected Behaviour

[matthew brandi]

Dear people

In my role as village idiot, I am asking whether the string "fwd" in a message has a
special meaning to inlet.

Naively, I was expecting inlet to pass the string to the subpatch, but it seems not
to. See example patch attached.

Outlet behaves as I was expecting and inlet will pass "symbol fwd".

Clearly, I have failed to grasp something simple, but what?

In case this is version specific behaviour, I am using Pd 0.51.0 on Linux.

All the best

m
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matthew brandi
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#N canvas 645 195 817 288 12;
#N canvas 5 93 331 138 in-out 0;
#X obj 45 38 inlet;
#X obj 45 64 outlet;
#X connect 0 0 1 0;
#X restore 436 133 pd in-out;
#X msg 455 65 bck;
#X msg 491 65 rnd;
#X msg 417 65 fwd;
#X msg 335 65 symbol fwd;
#X obj 436 159 symbol;
#X symbolatom 436 185 10 0 0 0 - - -;
#X msg 185 66 bck;
#X msg 221 66 rnd;
#X msg 149 66 fwd;
#X msg 67 66 symbol fwd;
#X obj 149 160 symbol;
#X symbolatom 149 186 10 0 0 0 - - -;
#N canvas 1068 494 333 218 out 0;
#X obj 46 38 inlet;
#X obj 46 64 bang;
#X msg 46 90 fwd;
#X obj 46 165 outlet;
#X msg 101 90 bck;
#X obj 101 38 inlet;
#X obj 101 64 bang;
#X connect 0 0 1 0;
#X connect 1 0 2 0;
#X connect 2 0 3 0;
#X connect 4 0 3 0;
#X connect 5 0 6 0;
#X connect 6 0 4 0;
#X restore 621 129 pd out;
#X obj 621 155 symbol;
#X symbolatom 621 181 10 0 0 0 - - -;
#X msg 621 71 bang;
#X msg 660 71 bang;
#X text 591 72 fwd;
#X text 700 71 bck;
#X connect 0 0 5 0;
#X connect 1 0 0 0;
#X connect 2 0 0 0;
#X connect 3 0 0 0;
#X connect 4 0 0 0;
#X connect 5 0 6 0;
#X connect 7 0 11 0;
#X connect 8 0 11 0;
#X connect 9 0 11 0;
#X connect 10 0 11 0;
#X connect 11 0 12 0;
#X connect 13 0 14 0;
#X connect 14 0 15 0;
#X connect 16 0 13 0;
#X connect 17 0 13 1;