On Sep 6, 2011, at 2:55 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011, fbar wrote:
Forgot to add: Of course it is possible and legal to "use"
numerical or non-printable symbols as selectors, but they have to be constructed dynamically and cannot be typed, in accordance with the restrictions mentioned in the manual.If you put a single leading backslash in front of the number in
the .pd file, you will get A_SYMBOL in pd, but Pd will save it back
to A_FLOAT because it will forget to add the backslash... likewise
if you edit the box containing that symbol.
Wow, that's fascinating. So Pd already has a way to store and load
symbols like "43". Miller, any comment on that? Or is it just a side
effect of something else.
Here's a little example of this in action:
.hc
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