PS: actually I think there's no reason to reserve them within symbol atoms. it would great to have at least *one* place in Pd where you can just type whatever you want.
> Gesendet: Montag, 14. Mai 2018 um 13:43 Uhr > Von: "Christof Ressi" <[email protected]> > An: "Zack Lee" <[email protected]> > Cc: "PD List send" <[email protected]> > Betreff: Re: [PD] Reason for not allowing '{' and '}' in Pd? > > it's because these characters are special in Tcl and Pd currently doesn't try > to escape them when sending them to the gui. you can still construct those > characters on the Pd side (e.g. sending the ascii value to [list tosymbol]) > but you can't type them. I also find this very annoying (you can't type JS, > Lua or most other code in Pd) but from what I understood those characters are > kept reserved because one day they might be turned into a feature (e.g. using > {} for nested lists). > > > > Gesendet: Montag, 14. Mai 2018 um 13:31 Uhr > Von: "Zack Lee" <[email protected]> > An: "Miller Puckette" <[email protected]>, "PD List send" <[email protected]> > Betreff: [PD] Reason for not allowing '{' and '}' in Pd? > > Hi, I'm trying to add a Lua scripting feature for my external which will > allow users to write and run Lua scripts directly in pd as object arguments > similar to how [expr] object works. > > But the problem is curly brackets are used for table literals (e.g. a = {1, > 2, 3}) in Lua, so it is not possible to create tables using this method. > I could only use '{' and '}' by editing the patch with a text editor, then > reopening the patch in Pd. > > I found this code inside canvas_key() function from "g_editor.c" file. > > > if (keynum == '\\' || keynum == '{' || keynum == '}') > { > post("keycode %d: dropped", (int)keynum); > return; > } > > I would like to know why these 3 characters are not allowed in Pd. > Would there be any problem if we remove the above code from Pd? > Thanks! > > Best regards, > Zack > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing > list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
