On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 09:00:22 +0200 Frank Barknecht barknech@ph-cip.uni-koeln.de wrote:
$dollars in messages and $dollars in objects inside of an abstraction (pattern.pd) are two different things. $1,$2,$3.. in a message always get the values of incoming messages.
This is a long-term question but... seeing that this has tripped up several of us, would it make sense to come up with a different notation for one or the other? Could it be done in a way that wouldn't break legacy scripts?
I suppose only Miller can decide this, but it might be worth considering.