On 08/22/2016 10:27 PM, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote:
break anything for sure. Also, the curly-bracket filter would need to be removed from the key eventhandler in g_editor.c. Plus any other places in m_binbuf.c or other places where curlies are filtered.
exactly, that's the idea. because they are forbidden now, they can be used for new features.
They would break the inter-process message parser.
how so? it's not like every tcl/tk application prevents the use of {}. (there's obviously a reason why Pd does forbid it; however, i doubt that the unerlying problem cannot be solved)
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