Re: [PD-dev] $0 in messages, was: multiple $arg-expansion

On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:24:06 +0100 IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig@iem.at wrote:

personally i have to admit, that i don't have problems with $ in objects and $ in messages. for me it really emphasizes the difference between a message (an event; only exists _now_; no knowledge of its environment) and an object (a process (a storage); persistant; ...)

well, i distinguishing # and $ for messages / objects would increase the expressive power of the language pd, since two different language features are expressed differently ...

reusing keywords for different features makes a language lot easier to read / understand ... just compare with the different semantic of the keyword 'static' in c++ ...

just my 1.5707963¢ ... tim