[maxmsp] Re: Minor confusion about "symbol"

On 6/3/07, alexander <sympathetic_noise at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> max v2;
> #N vpatcher 19 57 532 457;
> #P window setfont "Sans Serif" 9.;
> #P window linecount 1;
> #P newex 29 117 32 196617 print;
> #P message 29 93 18 196617 \$1;
> #P message 29 69 138 196617 symbol fourhundredandforty;
> #P window linecount 0;
> #P message 71 488 50 196617;
> #P window linecount 1;
> #P message 71 391 55 196617 symbol OK;
> #P window linecount 0;
> #P message 71 488 50 196617;
> #P window linecount 1;
> #P message 71 391 55 196617 symbol OK;
> #P window linecount 0;
> #P message 71 488 50 196617;
> #P window linecount 1;
> #P message 71 391 55 196617 symbol OK;
> #P connect 6 0 7 0;
> #P connect 7 0 8 0;
> #P connect 0 0 1 0;
> #P connect 2 0 3 0;
> #P connect 4 0 5 0;
> #P pop;
>
> Changing the third messagebox to a print and replacing 440 with a symbol
> seems to work.
> In your example it will treat '440' as an int and is thus a bad argument
> for the 'symbol' message.
> --
> - Alexander
> _______________________________________________


May I ask then what exactly is a symbol ? In the manual I saw 3 examples
using symbol , 2 were symbol append and symbol set , both were using int.
The 3rd showed an example of "symbol OK " to an if statement where the
condition was something like "if $f2 < $f3...

SA
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