On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, ix wrote:
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 06:57:34PM +0000, ix@replic.net wrote:
wait, if you can use backslashes in messages, is tehre a reason you can't type them in?
Possibly an obsolete reason, or maybe it's because quoting strings the naive way and sending them to sys_vgui would fail if backslashes are not backslashed themselves, because then the backslashes may disappear or cause a syntax/parse error if the backslash is at the end of the string (and thus would become followed directly by a close-brace or double-quote).
but in any case I wouldn't allow them directly like that; I have a plan to make Pd more "syntaxful" and it involves taking the three special characters and give them special meanings, having to do with nested lists as well as quoting special characters so that [tot] becomes simpler and likewise embedding python ruby scheme etc code in a pd patch becomes simpler.
Mathieu Bouchard -=- Montréal QC Canada -=- http://artengine.ca/matju