On Sep 10, 2011, at 9:25 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
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From: Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]>
To: Jonathan Wilkes <[email protected]>
Cc: Frank Barknecht <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]
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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?
Yes, I believe its MAXPDSTRING defined in m_pd.h or some other header.
.hc
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