On Fri, 9 Sep 2011, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
"" = really an empty string (just like the &s_ given by A_DEFSYMBOL, that you nearly can't produce otherwise)
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And also if you do $1 inside of a DOLLSYM, you will get a default empty string, though not separately, because it joins it to another symbol.
However, if you write $1$2 as a DOLLSYM and the abstraction has no arguments, you will produce the empty symbol without using any objects to do so (other the abstraction that you just made, and the object you are passing this argument to).
Also, how do you go about converting all the places in the current documentation where comments have quotes in them?
I don't know. Very good point. Writing the symbol foo as "foo" with the doublequotes is allowed, but would be canonically converted to just foo again, because atom_string would figure that it does not benefit from having the double-quotes...
We need a comment type in which the whole comment is a single symbol, all of the time. Its code needs to be more separated from parsed-text boxes such as objectboxes and messageboxes, while currently, nearly all of the code is shared.
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