I just can't see how there could be any problem, or, in other words, I can't see how $0 becoming "0" in messages is a desired feature or if
anyone
could rely on this behaviour.
"0" certainly isn't a good behaviour.
What would be the good behaviour, in this case?
But, if there's any concern or resistance to this, no problem, my alternative would be to create an external that would do that. but then
I'd
like to know here first where should I aim my efforts, if to a Pull
Request
to Vanilla or to an external design.
like mostly, i'm opposing. this has been discussed about 15 years ago, and my arguments still stand (mainly: consistency with dollar-parsing throughout Pd)
Yes, but there is no consistency either now. So the question would be: is the current inconsistency a productive one (do people benefit from having a 0 there), or would people benefit more from having an inconsistency that provides them with a new useful feature?
For me, I can't count how many times I had to add a [$0], or a pack or some extra workaround before a message so that I could send messages to my variables (I hardly use variables without a $0).
Joao