It seems that somewhere in Pd # chars are being converted to $ chars. I imagine this is support Max users who are used to #1 vars. But I don't know of any use of # in Pd and I would like to be able to use webcolors as symbols (i.e. #ffbb00).
Is there any reason not to get rid of this conversion?
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On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
It seems that somewhere in Pd # chars are being converted to $ chars. I imagine this is support Max users who are used to #1 vars. But I don't know of any use of # in Pd and I would like to be able to use webcolors as symbols (i.e. #ffbb00).
No, it has nothing to do with Max, it has to do with Miller using it as an escape mechanism because for some reason prepending a backslash to a dollar sign would've been too clean.
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On Nov 7, 2007, at 4:19 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
It seems that somewhere in Pd # chars are being converted to $ chars. I imagine this is support Max users who are used to #1 vars. But I don't know of any use of # in Pd and I would like to be able to use webcolors as symbols (i.e. #ffbb00).
No, it has nothing to do with Max, it has to do with Miller using it as an escape mechanism because for some reason prepending a backslash to a dollar sign would've been too clean.
Oh well... I found a workaround...
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Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
It seems that somewhere in Pd # chars are being converted to $ chars. I imagine this is support Max users who are used to #1 vars. But I don't know of any use of # in Pd and I would like to be able to use webcolors as symbols (i.e. #ffbb00).
No, it has nothing to do with Max, it has to do with Miller using it as
afaik, it was thomas musil who introduced the #/$ weirdness in the iemguis.
matju, it would be nice if you would not start a flame war against miller at each and every single inconsistency found in pd-vanilla. he is not the only one who has written code in pd-vanilla, lots of sh!t has been thought of and implemented by others (like me).
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On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: No, it has nothing to do with Max, it has to do with Miller using it as
afaik, it was thomas musil who introduced the #/$ weirdness in the iemguis. matju, it would be nice if you would not start a flame war against miller at each and every single inconsistency found in pd-vanilla.
Yes, I am sorry.
he is not the only one who has written code in pd-vanilla, lots of sh!t has been thought of and implemented by others (like me).
i know that "shit" is used in a rather neutral way on the street, but this is not the street, and I encourage everybody to not use such language.
just for the record, I believe that pd-vanilla is a great piece of software, especially considering how few bugs it has. It's just not what I'd like it to be, but then, I can't help thinking about just more features and designs all of the time. Whenever I say something about pd-vanilla, keep in mind that I'm still using it, and that there are reasons for that.
back to #/$ : i think it's fair enough for Thomas. A solution using backslashes would have been trickier and prone to depend on current behaviour of backslash, and I believe that the behaviour of backslashes will change someday.
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