On Tue, 6 Sep 2011, Frank Barknecht wrote:
I'm not sure what "appears in the patch" should mean. It definitly means
that numercial-symbol selectors don't get shown and cannot be written
into a patch, so you cannot use them in the editor where "real"
selectors should be written, like in [route]: There's no [route "15"] in
Pd, where "15" should mean a numerical symbol.
I proposed such a syntax in the past... 2006-2007, I think.
It would take care of :
"15" = \15 but looks less weird
"" = really an empty string (just like the &s_ given by A_DEFSYMBOL, that
you nearly can't produce otherwise)
"hello world" = hello\ \ \ \ \ \ world but less annoying to type.
"hello " = hello\ \ \ but at least it wouldn't be confusing like ending
a symbol by backslash space and then immediately using a space separator.
";" = \;
"," = \,
but it means :
" would be syntax error
\" would mean double-quote char
"\"" too
Those conventions are very similar to Tcl and Bash.
However, I don't know what "$1" would do, nor why it's a good idea, or a
bad idea.
Also, how do we quote ";" when writing to a file ? a literal semicolon in
a messagebox would be written as \;, which has to be written \\\; in the
file, but if a user were to write ";", what will the messagebox write to
the .pd file ?
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