Re: Re: [PD-dev] strings

2006-12-18 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mathieu Bouchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have no clue what you're talking about: how mangled would they be? i don't plan any mangling to happen, except for the presence of \0 characters. Maybe you don't understand what is being proposed. How

Re: Re: [PD-dev] strings

2006-12-18 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If ascii values from 0 - 31 can be part of symbols that would be nice. How do you specify a symbol containing ascii values 1 2 and 3? Do they have names? Do it the way most languages have borrowed from C : use backslash followed by an octal or

Re: Re: [PD-dev] strings

2006-12-18 Thread martin.peach
Mathieu Bouchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you realise that the quoting problem can be solved independently of the allocation problem? In that case, you would be able to save any symbol and read it back. This would solve the problem about CR LF and spaces; only the problem with \0

Re: Re: [PD-dev] strings

2006-12-18 Thread martin.peach
De: Hans-Christoph Steiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/12/18 lun. AM 09:45:26 GMT-05:00 À: carmen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: pd-dev@iem.at Objet: Re: [PD-dev] strings On Dec 18, 2006, at 1:23 AM, carmen wrote: Automatic type conversion sounds like a really bad idea if the language

Re: Re: [PD-dev] strings

2006-12-18 Thread martin.peach
De: Mathieu Bouchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/12/18 lun. PM 12:11:18 GMT-05:00 À: Martin Peach [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: pd-dev@iem.at Objet: Re: [PD-dev] strings On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Martin Peach wrote: You make them work as strings when they can, and You make them work as