On Apr 7, 2009, at 6:08 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
Oops, there was supposed to be a second part to that, which is a
question: So why couldn't meta-messages all be lists, and whatever
part of Pd it is that checks for meta-messages just checks the
first item of the incoming list for "set", "add2", etc.?
basically because it is like it is.
i guess that if someone (not completely naive; and with an eye on
language-design and not just tool-design) would go and re-invent the
wheel, they would make lists just lists. without any special
"selector" (just the first element of the list).
as things stand, you have to either accept things how they are or
look for an alternative.
changing the way list works will be destructive to all but the most
trivial patches out there.
I think it would be possible to make a library that treated every
message with more than one element as a list. It would be a library
of pack, unpack, prepend, append, route, etc. But then you could use
that library to have easier list handling, but still have backwards
compatibilty. Some day... maybe someone can beat me to it!
.hc
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