canonical atom-types:
- A_FLOAT (1)
a number, e.g.
3 - A_SYMBOL (2)
a symbol (a string stored in a hashtable), e.g.
foo - A_POINTER (3)
a pointer to a datastructure
canonical atom-types usually not found in messages (only messageboxes):
- A_SEMI (4)
a semicolon
;(end of message) - A_COMMA (5)
a comma
,(message delimiter) - A_DOLLAR (8)
a (numbered) placeholder, e.g.
$2 - A_DOLLSYM (9)
a symbol containing a (numbered) placeholder, e.g.
$0-table
pseudo atom-types (not used in t_atom):
- A_NULL (0)
type-list terminator. does not count as being part of the type-list.
- A_DEFFLOAT (6)
default number (for object arguments)
if the user does not supply a (numeric) argument,
0is assumed - A_DEFSYM (7)
default symbol (for object arguments)
if the user does not supply a (symbolic) argument, '' (empty symbol) is assumed
- A_GIMME (10)
type-list element representing all arguments at once. should be the only type-list element.
- A_CANT (11)
"bottom type". this makes it impossible to call a method the normal way: it has to be picked up by getfn. this is meant to be for methods that have to accept non-atom arguments. for example, DSP arguments are not atoms.
user-defined atom-types:
if you add your own atom-type, please specify the numeric-value and a description where the type is used
- A_NULL (0)
this pseudo atom-type is reused by GridFlow as a real atom-type. when a_type==A_NULL, a_w is ignored and the meaning is like that of "nil" or "undef" or "none" or "NULL" in other languages.
- A_LIST (13)
a_w is a t_binbuf *. used by GridFlow and eventually DesireData.
- A_GRID (14)
reserved by GridFlow
- A_GRIDOUT (15)
a_w is a GridOutlet *. used by GridFlow
- A_FTS_OBJECT (77)
a complex datastructure as used by FTM
reserved by IOhannes
- A_FTS_STRING (78)
a string as used by FTM
reserved by IOhannes
- A_EVIL (666)
evil data; could be useful in the future for optimized implementations of evil processing routines
reserved by Stephen Sinclair
user-defined pseudo atom-types (not used in t_atom):
- A_ATOM (12)
reserved by DesireData... or not. (still pondering)