Supposedly, "list" and "bang" are identical. I think the right way to print an empty list is to print "bang". But then again, if you're asked what the selector is, I suppose it could be legitimately described as either 'list' or 'bang' - each carries a risk of confusion.
cheers Miller On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 01:50:36AM +0200, Roman Haefeli wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 19:19 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > If [list( is equal to [bang( then it always needs to be equal > > to [bang(. Right now, it is only sometimes equal to [bang( > > have you already tried this: > > [list( > | > [print] > > pd-window says: 'print: bang' . i admit, i didn't know that before, but > it seems somehow consistent, that an empty list is equal to 'bang'. do > you know a case, where it is handled differently? > > roman > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Der fr?he Vogel f?ngt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: > http://mail.yahoo.de > > > _______________________________________________ > PD-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list