----- Original Message -----
> From: Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]>
> To: Jonathan Wilkes <[email protected]>
> Cc: Frank Barknecht <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 3:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] (breaking symbols) was Re: find a list of numbers in a text
> file
>
> On Fri, 9 Sep 2011, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>
>>> "" = really an empty string (just like the &s_ given by
> A_DEFSYMBOL, that you nearly can't produce otherwise)
>>
>> [symbol(
>
> And also if you do $1 inside of a DOLLSYM, you will get a default empty
> string,
> though not separately, because it joins it to another symbol.
>
> However, if you write $1$2 as a DOLLSYM and the abstraction has no arguments,
> you will produce the empty symbol without using any objects to do so (other
> the
> abstraction that you just made, and the object you are passing this argument
> to).
>
>> Also, how do you go about converting all the places in the current
> documentation where comments have quotes in them?
>
> I don't know. Very good point. Writing the symbol foo as "foo"
> with the doublequotes is allowed, but would be canonically converted to just
> foo
> again, because atom_string would figure that it does not benefit from having
> the
> double-quotes...
>
> We need a comment type in which the whole comment is a single symbol,
Is there a limit on the size of a symbol?
> all of the
> time. Its code needs to be more separated from parsed-text boxes such as
> objectboxes and messageboxes, while currently, nearly all of the code is
> shared.
>
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