Lists in List and indexing

i use conversions between symbols and lists (and usually coll for storage.)

"1 2 3 4 5", "list a b c"

[tosymbol]
[prepend symbol]

"symbol 1 2 3 4 5", "symbol a b c"

then [sprintf], [zl group], [pack zzz zzz] or whatever.

allows 254*254( minus index and commas) characters in max 4 and 254*2096 in max 7 to be written in "one line" or "one parameter".

if you prefer to have a specific writing style such as the one in you example code above you could add that just fine when concatenating the sub-lists with [sprintf]:

#P window setfont "Sans Serif" 9.;
#P window linecount 1;
#P message 331 387 120 9109513 [1 2 3] [a b c];
#P newex 331 349 98 9109513 prepend set;
#P newex 331 276 98 9109513 sprintf [%s] [%s];
#P newex 468 208 98 9109513 prepend symbol;
#P newex 468 179 98 9109513 tosymbol;
#P newex 331 208 98 9109513 prepend symbol;
#P newex 331 179 98 9109513 tosymbol;
#P button 401 42 28 0;
#P newex 468 123 98 9109513 list a b c;
#P newex 331 123 98 9109513 1 2 3;
#P connect 4 0 7 0;
#P connect 6 0 7 1;
#P connect 7 0 8 0;
#P connect 8 0 9 0;
#P connect 2 0 0 0;
#P connect 2 0 1 0;
#P connect 0 0 3 0;
#P connect 1 0 5 0;
#P connect 5 0 6 0;
#P connect 3 0 4 0;
#P window clipboard copycount 10;

(i wouldnt use commas and quotation marks in max, we usually only use them on the forums to indicate what is of what type, but in code ussed inside max it is too confusing to read. brackets look great to indicate a sublist IMO.)