Cycling 74 » Topic: (a Max list is a message that begins with a number) http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/a-max-list-is-a-message-that-begins-with-a-number/feed Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:05:55 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=2.2.4 http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/a-max-list-is-a-message-that-begins-with-a-number/#post-60526 <![CDATA[(a Max list is a message that begins with a number)]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/a-max-list-is-a-message-that-begins-with-a-number/#post-60526 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:56:50 +0000 David This is in the help reference for zl. What does it mean?

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/a-max-list-is-a-message-that-begins-with-a-number/#post-217855 <![CDATA[Re: (a Max list is a message that begins with a number)]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/a-max-list-is-a-message-that-begins-with-a-number/#post-217855 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 07:26:38 +0000 nicolas danet Hello,

messages sent to an object :

“1 2 3 4 5 6″ is the method “list” with “1 2 3 4 5 6″ as arguments ;
“74 momo fait du bobo” is the method “list” with “74 momo fait du bobo” as arguments ;

“74″ is the method “int” with “74″ as argument ;
“0.74″ is the method “float” with “0.74″ as argument ;

“toto 2 6 7 0″ is the method “toto” with “2 6 7 0″ as arguments ;
“a b c d” is the method “a” with “b c d” as arguments ;

i’m not sure to understand yet what really is a “symbol” ;-)

“For brevity in the discussion that follows, we refer to any Max message as a list including single elements such as int, symbol, and float and messages that begin with a symbol (a Max list is a message that begins with a number).”

more or less [zl] behavior : anything is considered as list (except of course private command as zlclear).

HTH

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/a-max-list-is-a-message-that-begins-with-a-number/#post-217856 <![CDATA[Re: (a Max list is a message that begins with a number)]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/a-max-list-is-a-message-that-begins-with-a-number/#post-217856 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:47:49 +0000 Roman Thilenius vanille wrote: “1 2 3 4 5 6″ is the method “list” with “1 2 3 4 5 6″ as arguments

isnt it “1″ with “2″, “3″, “4″, “5″, and “6″ as arguments? that is how [printit] sees it.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/a-max-list-is-a-message-that-begins-with-a-number/#post-217857 <![CDATA[Re: (a Max list is a message that begins with a number)]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/a-max-list-is-a-message-that-begins-with-a-number/#post-217857 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:13:25 +0000 Emmanuel Jourdan @vanille béchamel is correct, if you write js, mxj or C code you’ll have a list method which will get the arguments: 1 2 3 4 5 6.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/a-max-list-is-a-message-that-begins-with-a-number/#post-217858 <![CDATA[Re: (a Max list is a message that begins with a number)]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/a-max-list-is-a-message-that-begins-with-a-number/#post-217858 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:45:06 +0000 David Thanks, that does help. I can’t remember seeing the word “method” used in the documentation but it makes sense to me that any symbolic names can be considered as referring to a “method of the object”. This sort of thing is often described in a language reference but Max documentation doesn’t seem to do it that way.

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