On Nov 29, 2007, at 12:46 PM, marius schebella wrote: > I think [select] always worked that way since the beginning of Pd. > it is also the case in max. I don't know if it is a good idea to > change the behaviour, since it is easy to find a work around and > might brake patches.
If someone is relying on [select] to trim lists, that would be either unintentional, or some odd programming, IMHO. I think it's worth it. There have been more severe changes in the past, like atan switching inlets, there could be a warning like "warning passing data thru unchanged, this is new behavior in 0.41". > but personally, of course I would like to see the change, at least > it needs to be documented. it probably was documented in the > original helpfile, but it is not documented in the pddp help patch. Please add it to PDDP help patch and submit it to the tracker. Then I can check it in. > is there a workflow for changes in helppatches. how do I submit > changes. > and a wish related to that topic: please keep/make helpfiles read/ > writeable! chmod -R +w /Applications/Pd-extended.app/Contents/Resources/doc/ .hc > marius. > > Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >> Hmm, I suppose it should pass thru every thing unmodified on the >> right outlet. Can anyone think of any problems or disadvantages >> of [select] just outputting the unmatched input intact on the >> right outlet? >> .hc >> On Nov 29, 2007, at 3:12 AM, marius schebella wrote: >>> hi, >>> I just found out, that [select] only throughputs floats and >>> symbols, but >>> not lists. >>> >>> [1 2 3 4 5( >>> | >>> [sel bla] >>> >>> will only output "1" on the right outlet, but not a the whole >>> list. that >>> is quite a limitation. but... ok. >>> marius. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> [email protected] mailing list >>> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/ >>> listinfo/pd-list >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ------- 'You people have such restrictive dress for women,’ she >> said, hobbling away in three inch heels and panty hose to finish >> out another pink-collar temp pool day. - “Hijab Scene #2", by >> Mohja Kahf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Computer science is no more related to the computer than astronomy is related to the telescope. -Edsger Dykstra _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
