robcanning wrote:

The Lua operator .. is string concatenation, so you can do:

"foo" .. "bar"

to get:

"foobar"

Something like:

-- called when "greaterthan" message is received at first inlet -- atoms is a table of the atoms in the message following the selector function M:in_1_greaterthan(atoms) local name = atoms[1] -- could be: "score" local value = atoms[2] -- could be: 3 if name ~= nil and value ~= nil then -- could check types too.. -- do your stuff here end end

If you have a range of possible selectors, and don't want to have to write a method for all of them, you can use:

function M:in_1(selector, atoms) ... end

Then selector will be "greaterthan" (or whatever) and atoms will be as above.

More specific methods are called before less specific methods, read pd.lua to see how that works (it's in the dispatcher function(s)).

Hope this helps,

Claude