Hallo, Mathieu Bouchard hat gesagt: // Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
What about patches that use # or ? or @ to mean something else already?
By treating all character combinations to be valid unless otherwise used, Pd has painted itself in a corner about extending functionality. Anything new breaks some compatibility: you can only hope that a certain combination of characters is not already in use by actual patches, but you can't even know that.
True. That's why I think, adding new meanings should only be considered for things more urgent. While the slightly different meaning of $ in message and object context is a bit confusing at first, it's something that one can get used to quite easily. OTOH I'm really glad that dollar substitution inside of a symbol instead of only at the start is possible now, even if that did break some older patches. This feature is just too convenient to pass by.
CIao
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