title: How to convert a list of 1 to an individual turtle
body: <p>I have a list which will always contain only 1 turtle in it. It is a patch-only variable and hence when any patch is inspected it appears like <code>best-turtle: [(turtle 1)].</code></p>
  
  <p>I am reference this particular turtle in another routine using the following code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>ask patches [
  set closest-turtle best-turtle
  set pcolor scale-color ([color] of closest-turtle + 2) share 0 10
  ]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am getting the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>OF expected input to be a turtle agentset or link agentset or turtle or link but got the list [(party 0)] instead.
  error while patch 4 -2 running OF
    called by procedure UPDATE-SUPPORT
    called by procedure SETUP
    called by Button 'Setup'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It is because of the closest-turtle variable being a list rather than a turtle. SO is there a way to convert a list of 1 to a turtle or some other way to solve this problem.</p>