On Mar 18, 2021, at 10:29 AM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 09:18:32 +0100
From: IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig@iem.at>
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Subject: Re: [PD] symbols with zero paddings and spaces
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On 3/17/21 2:25 PM, Christof Ressi wrote:

Note the different position of the backslash! I'm not sure if this 
particular escaping behavior is actually intended or just works by 
chance... Generally, it would be great to document Pd's string escaping, 
because it is not entirely obvious.

something like that was reported as 
https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/1277

i'm pretty convinced that the backslash escaping of numbers to force 
them to symbols is accidental and should not be relied on.
whenever i find the time, i would like to fix this bug.


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