> I have a need to see if an object has been from a boolean input splitter but 
> they always seem to get coerced to numbers when passed to other patches...

There isn't currently a way to determine the type of a virtual, but after some 
thinking (incidentally -- not related to this at all) it seems like having a 
"typeof" patch that took a virtual input in, and set the corresponding output 
type to true would be handy for making macros that accept virtual inputs  (one 
use would be a Debugging macro that intelligently handles various input types 
automatically).

Even with that, I still think boolean vs. number will be problematic, because 
they're both represented identically under the hood so there's not really a way 
to distinguish what the orginal was.  (similarly, number and index will be 
problematic because every index is a number).

(on NSNumber, there's -objCType, which _might_ actually allow distinguishing 
the type in some cases, but the documentation says it's not necessarily always 
going to match...)

--
Christopher Wright
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