I think I've seen a patch that does this with 'anything' as its pass-through input. But can't remember what it was called (?)

My question is: How do you tell lua to take an 'anything' at an inlet & pass it through to an outlet?

(The lua patch I've made, so far, will pass floats through to the outlet specified by the right inlet.)

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/takefork.pd_lua

According to http://puredata.info/dev/PdDefinitions, "anything" is not a data type, it is just a term for "any data type".

I tried to recreate your script with Tcl and managed to pass messages like [any foo( by creating a method "takefork2::0_any ...". The "foo" is properly passed.

Because of using a scripting language, the values pass twice the "PureData - script language border". It might not always be clear what happens here.

Adding a "function Takefork:in_1_symbol(s) ..." to your Lua script lets me pass the message [symbol foo( . Actually I did expect just the "foo", but got "symbol foo". But this could be my very limited knowledge of Pd-Lua interaction.

Addition:
Found your original sample: ldemux.lua_pd in pdlua examples. Just leave the type from the function name makes it generic: "function LDemux:in_1(s, m) ..."

Okay, works. Also with lists, yay!

Why two arguments? (s,m)

'ldemux' is not a name that would have occurred to me right off... "Nozzle" maybe? A French contribution I guess?

Anyhow, thanks!