"I almost meant that :) you still have to send [text sequence] the values of
the $ variables you want to use (starting with $1). But the ability to
instance-ize sequences is there."

hmmm, are you pointing to a solution where I can send "$0" to textfile and it would generate the number and do the trick? Gotta check this thing better.

cheers

2014-04-03 20:10 GMT-03:00 Miller Puckette <msp@ucsd.edu>:

I almost meant that :) you still have to send [text sequence] the values of
the $ variables you want to use (starting with $1). But the ability to
instance-ize sequences is there.

cheers
M

On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 08:38:16AM +0200, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 20:49 -0300, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
> > By the way, haven't been really able to make it work well with
> > [textfile]. If you get a symbol with $0-symbol from a text file, you
> > can't use it to work as an address for [send].
>
> Miller proposed to use the new [text] class introduced in 0.45, not the
> old [textfile]. I haven't checked myself, but according to him this
> would solve all your trouble as it allows - if I understand correctly -
> to take literal $0 strings that get expanded only at reading time. (Is
> that what you meant, Miller?)
>
> Roman
>
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