On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, y wrote:
"I'm against adding a general escape mechanism, because I think it's better to find a design that obviate teh need for it..."
see also: http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2005-07/029546.html http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2005-07/029556.html
Basically, it's really rare among popular programming languages to get away with not having some kind of escape mechanism or else something nearly equivalent to an escape mechanism which isn't taking much more room than a plain string.
In Pd, your only way to handle this without editing .pd files in a text editor, is to use multiple objects just for constructing the string... and before Pd 0.40 it also required externals.
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