--- On Mon, 11/16/09, Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PD] Finding "$0" and dealing with it in messages > To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Roman Haefeli" <[email protected]>, "Phil Stone" > <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Date: Monday, November 16, 2009, 8:59 PM > On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Jonathan Wilkes > wrote: > > --- On Mon, 11/16/09, Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> It doesn't work for those selectors: bang symbol > list > > Why do you say it doesn't work for list? > > because it doesn't. Well, if you send the message "list 7" to [symbol] it will output "symbol list," when, according to all_about_data_types.pd, it ought to output "symbol float." Other than this, are there instances where [symbol] doesn't work correctly with lists? > > > As far as I can tell you just need [route bang > symbol], two message boxes, and a [symbol] object. > There's no need to protect the message boxes because > whatever is coming out of inlet 0 and 1 of [route] is either > a bang or a symbol, both of which will trigger the msg box's > output without changing its content. > > You are right, two [b] are extraneous. You still need [b] > to protect msgbox «symbol list» from [route list]. In light of what I wrote above, you'd actually need [route bang symbol float] to correctly convert lists with one float element. -Jonathan > > _ _ __ ___ _____ ________ _____________ > _____________________ ... > | Mathieu Bouchard, Montréal, Québec. téléphone: > +1.514.383.3801 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
