If you change [value] to use a t_atom, why do you need to specify the type with 
a flag? Just add a symbol method and you're done. Am I missing something?

> Gesendet: Samstag, 07. Dezember 2019 um 03:01 Uhr
> Von: "Dan Wilcox" <danomat...@gmail.com>
> An: pd-list@lists.iem.at
> Betreff: Re: [PD] store a symbol and send on bang
>
> How about [value -s] instead? :)
> 
> I just whipped up a [value] update which changes the backing value storage to 
> use a t_atom and allows setting the value type based on a flag: -s makes a 
> symbol value, otherwise a float value. There are some checks against type 
> mismatches between the same name.
> 
> This allows for sending & receiving symbols via [value -s] or [v -s] objects. 
> Existing [value] and [v] objects are float types.
> 
> The only issue I can see, other than a little more memory usage and type 
> checking, would be possibly breaking patches which use "-s" as a value name. 
> In this case, sending a float to the inlet is silently ignored and a default 
> "symbol" symbol would be output on a bang which would cause a trackable error.
> 
> I can put up a PR soon when I clean up this change a bit. In the meantime, 
> macOS people can try out a test build: Pd-0.50.2-value-symbol.zip 
> <http://docs.danomatika.com/pdbuilds/0.51/Pd-0.50.2-value-symbol.zip>
> 
> > On Dec 6, 2019, at 5:50 PM, pd-list-requ...@lists.iem.at wrote:
> > 
> > From: IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoel...@iem.at <mailto:zmoel...@iem.at>>
> > To: pd-list@lists.iem.at <mailto:pd-list@lists.iem.at>
> > Subject: Re: [PD] store a symbol and send on bang
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> > Am 6. Dezember 2019 15:27:02 MEZ schrieb Christof Ressi 
> > <christof.re...@gmx.at <mailto:christof.re...@gmx.at>>:
> >> This would just complicate the interface. Just use [symbol] + [send] and 
> >> you're done.
> > 
> >  
> > +1
> > 
> > also, [symbol -s] would make it quite complicated to create a symbol "-s"...
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > mfg.hft.fsl
> > IOhannes
> 
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