5 Apr
2018
5 Apr
'18
12:48 p.m.
On 03/04/18 21:52, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote:
When users for a decade have said they wanted $0 in msg boxes, they mean that they want to use Pd's notion of send-symbol locality inside message boxes. They want that instead of manually querying the value of a reserved dollarsign variable and sending that value to the relevant message box in order to get "let" behavior.
Absolutely. Given some of Pd's other quirks the $0 issue seems like a funny time for semantic purity. The forks have given people what they want.
Cheers,
Chris.