On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Right... I forgot about this. This is probably related to Pd not having a string type...
Yeah, comments are parsed by pd exactly like objectboxes. it's just that no actual object is instantiated (binbuf_eval is not called). That was necessary to avoid having to introduce strings in pd and/or making a special case for comments.
For Miller it was important to have a stupid typesystem. Now, if you load 20 abstractions with 20 comments/abstr with 20 words/comment, then you may have up to 20*20*20=8000 new symbols in the symboltable, that have no purpose whatsoever at actual execution.
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