--- On Fri, 11/13/09, Roman Haefeli reduzierer@yahoo.de wrote:
From: Roman Haefeli reduzierer@yahoo.de Subject: Re: [PD] Finding "$0" and dealing with it in messages To: "Roman Haefeli" reduzierer@yahoo.de, "Phil Stone" pkstone@ucdavis.edu, "Mathieu Bouchard" matju@artengine.ca Cc: pd-list@iem.at Date: Friday, November 13, 2009, 11:21 AM This is obviously a loop. All this has been said and proposed before in the thread [1], that has been posted by alex porres a few posts back. Sorry for not having brought any new perspectives into the discussion, but having just repeated what has been said already.
The only thing i don't really get: Why seems there some agreement, that using $0 to get the selector could be confusing?
It would certainly end the discussions about the special (somehow undefined) state it has now.
You can already use [symbol] to get the selector of an incoming message. I can't think of many patches where I would utilize $0 to get the selector, but I can think of lots of abstractions where treating $0 in msg boxes the same as in object boxes would have been very convenient.
-Jonathan