Re: [PD] escape space character

2009-02-09 Thread Chris McCormick
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 10:05:31PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: On Feb 8, 2009, at 9:29 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, y wrote: I'm against adding a general escape mechanism, because I think it's better to find a design that obviate teh need for it... see

Re: [PD] escape space character

2009-02-09 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: Do you have any examples of full-fledged languages that don't have an escaping mechanism? I used to make rather large programmes using QuickBASIC, which had doublequote-delimited strings in which you could have spaces, but newlines had to be

Re: [PD] escape space character

2009-02-09 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Chris McCormick wrote: Almost every modern language has at least one of these basic features, and that is why I still stubbornly refuse to call Pd a programming language. It may be turing complete, but it's not useful for general purpose programming. It definately could be

Re: [PD] escape space character

2009-02-08 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, y wrote: I'm against adding a general escape mechanism, because I think it's better to find a design that obviate teh need for it... see also: http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2005-07/029546.html

Re: [PD] escape space character

2009-02-08 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Feb 8, 2009, at 9:29 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, y wrote: I'm against adding a general escape mechanism, because I think it's better to find a design that obviate teh need for it... see also: http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2005-07/029546.html

Re: [PD] escape space character

2009-02-07 Thread y
Yeah I know some ways to get around this with extended but I'm more into the vanilla-way-of-life =) I would love having a quoting method and/or an escaping character like \ . Of course I have no idea about the difficulty to implement that and I just found a message from Herr Puckette saying:

Re: [PD] escape space character

2009-02-07 Thread Jack
I just make this abs and help to transform message with space to symbol using pure-pd objects. Based on the list-abs list-l2s. ++ Jack absforspace-help.pd Description: Binary data absforspace.pd Description: Binary data Le 7 févr. 09 à 14:14, y a écrit : Yeah I know some ways to get

Re: [PD] escape space character

2009-02-07 Thread y
Thanks for your effort Jack, but somehow I cannot get your abstraction working. It also does not work if I try with a basic example without spaces in the filename... Am I missing something ? (And [symbol] is part of pddp) Cheers, _y Jack wrote: I just make this abs and help to transform

Re: [PD] escape space character

2009-02-07 Thread Steffen Juul
On 07/02/2009, at 17.38, y wrote: Am I missing something ? does the Pd console tell you that list-drip was not created? list- drip is part of list-abs. ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -

Re: [PD] escape space character

2009-02-07 Thread Jack
Oops, of course ! I forget to attach it. ++ Jack list-drip.pd Description: Binary data Le 7 févr. 09 à 18:00, Steffen Juul a écrit : On 07/02/2009, at 17.38, y wrote: Am I missing something ? does the Pd console tell you that list-drip was not created? list- drip is part of list-abs.

Re: [PD] escape space character

2009-02-07 Thread y
No, I have list-abs in my path. I will try to find some time later to post a non-working example patch (but I must miss the obvious here...). Cheers, _y Jack wrote: Oops, of course ! I forget to attach it. ++ ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list

[PD] escape space character

2009-02-06 Thread y
Hello. (Sorry if this is a stoopid question but I could not find any answer on the list...) How can I escape the space character in a symbol '\' is forbidden in pd... so what's the alternative ? It looks like ' and are also not allowed... Cheers. _y

Re: [PD] escape space character

2009-02-06 Thread Mike McGonagle
Currently, there is no way to do an escape. There is some discussion about trying to implement a quoting method that would allows spaces... I attached an example of how you can convert a list of symbols (and numbers) into a single symbol, which would include spaces. It depends on an external from