On Thu, 8 Sep 2011, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Yes, I agree that [float] and [symbol] should also do conversions. A good
example would be Python's str() and float().
I believe that the implicit conversions should be at a lower level than
that, because then, they can apply all over pd, wherever Type Mismatch
errors would happen.
[set symbol $1(
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[ ( <-- What's printed here? ...My documents or ...My\ documents?
Depends on what the symbol selector does. If the symbol selector forces the
rest of the message to be a symbol, then there wouldn't need to be any
backslashes there. But it would probably be a good idea to have them there
anyway.
The problem with relying on the symbol selector for that, is that it is
limited to cases where you only want to pass a single symbol, which does
not apply to lists and other.
[set open 1(
I'm trying to store a command for opening a file whose name is just «1».
This can't use the symbol selector.
[set list 666 383.3801 986.3246(
this list contains two phone numbers I'd like to keep as symbols, but also
has a user id that I want to keep as float, and we have three elements in
the same messages, and only one selector at once.
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