Roman Haefeli wrote:
And yeah: Pd is missing a way to display the distinction between: ...
Not only to display it, but also to represent it (for example for storing it into a file with [textfile], or into a message box with [set ...( and not re-parsing it; and for manually writing it as a "literal").
Indeed Pd is missing a way of properly managing all characters that have some special meaning, like whitespace, dollar sign, commas and semicolons, and even characters that have some special meaning _internally_, such as brackets, which cause weird behaviours if used as labels of gui objects (sometimes the weirdnesses only manifest themselves after saving and loading the patch)....