--- On Fri, 11/13/09, Roman Haefeli <reduzie...@yahoo.de> wrote:
> From: Roman Haefeli <reduzie...@yahoo.de>
> Subject: Re: [PD] Finding "$0" and dealing with it in messages
> To: "Roman Haefeli" <reduzie...@yahoo.de>, "Phil Stone"
> <pkst...@ucdavis.edu>, "Mathieu Bouchard" <ma...@artengine.ca>
> Cc: pd-list@iem.at
> Date: Friday, November 13, 2009, 11:21 AM
> This is obviously a loop. All this
> has been said and proposed before in the
> thread [1], that has been posted by alex porres a few posts
> back. Sorry for
> not having brought any new perspectives into the
> discussion, but having just
> repeated what has been said already.
>
> The only thing i don't really get: Why seems there some
> agreement, that
> using $0 to get the selector could be confusing?
>
> It would certainly end the discussions about the special
> (somehow undefined)
> state it has now.
You can already use [symbol] to get the selector of an incoming message. I
can't think of many patches where I would utilize $0 to get the selector,
but I can think of lots of abstractions where treating $0 in msg boxes the
same as in object boxes would have been very convenient.
-Jonathan
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