-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2014-09-14 01:16, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-dev wrote: > To address your initial query about why may naturally want $0 in > msg boxes, in no particular order: * the syntax for variables is > the same in object and message boxes. So when a user learns that > $0 in an object box expands to a unique id, and $0 in msg expands > to 0, their minds may naturally wander freely between the two > separate contexts for the same combination of characters '$0'. > Some users reasonably wonder why msg expansion to "0", which is all > but useless,
as a non-native i had some trouble to correctly parse the term "all but useless", but after a websearch came to my rescue, i agree. what's more: i really think that $0 expanding to (float)'0' is a BUG. unless we acn assign something *useful* to $0-in-msgboxes, i think it should stay undefined, much like an argument out of range. > error: $0 unavailable in msgboxes > * related to above-- for consistency $0 in an obj or msg ought to > expand to the selector. oh yes. it's a pity that this is unlikely to happen (for compat reasons), but imho it's the only sensible expansion to $0 - in any context. fgmasdr IOhannes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJUFpNNAAoJELZQGcR/ejb4psUP/2so0uCzdNyrraO0It4drp9q NOHc60jBUdPurfdjxSoTmttuBXNryeXZejLQHTO2RlnEdqyRseMi8Cy9WJ7EEcVJ 2/ZiKl56aXWhsa+BTHs3sRcqkJOGdhMmBQT2FyA5ujgLWJbLCYeJ9J2lduspI7L6 XpNo9Mq2GDuS3O/Gx7ddTbtpgfpjD1k7He6ki517EFdtTY0om31wSbvalDqOzk2h thPVwW9uj0aU3qoSQpQPu7u7uXXOcGBqX8KE+ohR/4NVAAVtLWfoFe2QfeXrSKmb 6PZiqvakM4pXMcMS3u8eSchDG/AUrlX2oES/V1DjzRzCvHUYetSik6PuCl2DtMpn sldvhYN+biLYauRBckvJ4Ypw+g65q+ZqRT6ZtZwQzphAgwIwkWT59E/MSFZxxoPi JxeiSxy273AyR+3IDZtiX4ZgW1dtim1ipjWIfvZzqB6O4WG2AbMgjR+lrPoxlR9e 84/ifVm/yLjjFYFrgvMHKqaojqIeRYgPXZMySBxSaGqsKjPXl8enmTeIBeDWD3d3 563YI9ROEsUMqe+//6kFXEKFdeMdJ1pZvsP1TR2EaZ2jIF8fr44d4D1DO2bhVitP IxSDFTGM2yTa9IOk5fmSlz5HJQiARNRwgQxmUme+WROqKSa9LzmusMaVVJTWe7hf DaTC9MbM1vJTd8q3UKa8 =i8tR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Pd-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
