On 04/01/2018 10:42 PM, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote: > I just can't see how there could be any problem, or, in other words, I > can't see how $0 becoming "0" in messages is a desired feature or if anyone > could rely on this behaviour.
"0" certainly isn't a good behaviour. > > But, if there's any concern or resistance to this, no problem, my > alternative would be to create an external that would do that. but then I'd > like to know here first where should I aim my efforts, if to a Pull Request > to Vanilla or to an external design. > like mostly, i'm opposing. this has been discussed about 15 years ago, and my arguments still stand (mainly: consistency with dollar-parsing throughout Pd) apart from that, i wonder how you imagine your "external" (object) to fix Pd's message-box. for an external, $0 is expanded as you'd like it automatically anyhow. gfamsrd IOhannes
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