On Feb 8, 2009, at 9:29 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, y wrote: > >> "I'm against adding a general escape mechanism, because I think it's >> better to find a design that obviate teh need for it..." > > see also: > http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2005-07/029546.html > http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2005-07/029556.html > > Basically, it's really rare among popular programming languages to > get away with not having some kind of escape mechanism or else > something nearly equivalent to an escape mechanism which isn't > taking much more room than a plain string. > > In Pd, your only way to handle this without editing .pd files in a > text editor, is to use multiple objects just for constructing the > string... and before Pd 0.40 it also required externals.
Do you have any examples of full-fledged languages that don't have an escaping mechanism? .hc ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- All information should be free. - the hacker ethic _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
