[maxmsp] Re: Re: Minor confusion about "symbol"

On 6/4/07, jln <julien.rabin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Quote: sambient wrote on Mon, 04 June 2007 19:21
> ----------------------------------------------------
> > Alexander,
> >
> > No offense taken but where did I say anything about 3rd party externals
> in
> > this thread? Unless "symbol" is an external.
>
>
> I think he was referring to Roman's post about the printit object.
>
> As a side note, judging with the discussion which started a not so long
> time ago from Vade's post, the symbol/list difference is not necessarily an
> obvious thing. I mean, at least, it was not for me, for sure. Thus, although
> I also think that one should avoid using 3d party externals when starting to
> learn Max, maybe an exception could be made with printit. Maybe it would
> help to get the differences between various data type needed to work with in
> Max. Or maybe not. Just my experience.
>
> Best,
> Julien.
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Okay, cool.  I think what threw me is that initially and still primarily
working with the Tutorials manual.  I don't believe symbol was mentioned in
the ones I've worked on and I've stopped at the more advanced stuff to take
stock of what's been thrown at me so far. It was then I went with list of
objects in hand to the reference manual and found symbol under the "message"
section.  While my intention was to have a good idea about all message uses
perhaps symbol is a bit further down the road for me anyhow.

Stuart

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