Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, marius schebella wrote: > >> I would give most priority to any kind of $0 feature in messages. and >> then the next step for me would be to differentiate between >> $-variables (in messages) and # or ? or @ variables in patches. that >> way you would not break backwards compatibility, > > What about patches that use # or ? or @ to mean something else already? > > By treating all character combinations to be valid unless otherwise > used, Pd has painted itself in a corner about extending functionality. > Anything new breaks some compatibility: you can only hope that a certain > combination of characters is not already in use by actual patches, but > you can't even know that.
You are right, I thought it is unlikely that people use these characters often, but who knows. (maybe a search on the existing abstractions in the repository will give some clues.) even with a combination of charactars $$ ## #$ $# @@ ?? you can't be sure that they are not used before. but we have forums and lists, and I think that should be sufficiant to find a possible solution. marius. > > _ _ __ ___ _____ ________ _____________ _____________________ ... > | Mathieu Bouchard - tél:+1.514.383.3801, Montréal QC Canada _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
