And if this aspect of PD changes, please please, add a complete character escape mechanism, to be able to get literal '$', newline, backslash, comma, semicolomn, and spaces in a symbol.
Now pd is only 99% compatible with ASCII. I think the escape mechanism can be compatible with old patches, since there are only numbers used after a '$'.
That would allow to send eg. "set $; target1 $$*" to a message box.
regards, j#|@
Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo, IOhannes m zmoelnig hat gesagt: // IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Frank Barknecht wrote:
While we're at it: I would *LOVE* to have a variable length argument called $* as in bash, that just matches all incoming messages. Then
isn't this $@ ?
$* and $@ are almost the same, only quoting is handled differnently. See section "Special Parameters" in bash(1)
and while we are at it: $# would be cool too.
You got me. ;)
ciao