[PD] Add to documentation: makenote accepts lists in its leftmost inlet

[Peter P.]

Hi,

here is a reply from Miller that might have bypassed the list.

Peter

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From: Miller Puckette <mpuckette at cloud.ucsd.edu>
To: "Peter P." <peterparker at fastmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PD] Add to documentation: makenote accepts lists in its
 leftmost inlet
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 12:41:48 -0400

Certain objects (like spigot or list) don't work this way.  I don't think
there's a hard-and-fast rule.  Perhaps the ones that manage lists specially
should be flagged as not distributing lists among inlets.

cheers

Miller

On 3/14/24 17:36, Peter P. wrote:
> * Roman Haefeli <reduzent at gmail.com> [2024-03-14 15:57]:
> > On Thu, 2024-03-14 at 15:34 +0100, Peter P. wrote:
> > > the help patch for [makenote] could mention that the object accepts a
> > > list in its leftmost inlet as well, or is this behavior taken for
> > > granted along all message-objects?
> > > 
> > Yes, this my understanding. When list messages are received on the
> > left-most inlet, the atoms are spread over the inlets.
> > 
> > [9 7(
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> Thanks Roman!
> I knew about this with the simple math objects, but can someone confirm
> that it does work for all objects?
> 
> Best, P
> 
> 
> 
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