hmm, great, thanks, that is what I wondered, if anyone had bothered to bring this up.
Anyway, from the thread:
"you are violating the 3rd rule of $-expansion: "there is no $0 in message-boxes"."
I can deal around with it... but I just wonder if this third rule could be easily revised/changed. I don't see much of a problem, and it would make some stuff easier. So, here is my plead in favor of this case, I support the cause...
But if you say that it would be a pain in the ass, or argue that such rule must be mantained for some logic reason, I am cool.
I've read something about:
"it would make $0 be even more complicated to understand"
But I totally disagree, I have been teaching a lot basic Pd around, and people always get confused and think they can just throw "$0" in messages. So I have to state and reinforce that there is an exception that it doesn't work on messages. Without an exception at all, it should be easier to get it, as I understand.
And despite all that, as I see, "$0" on messages is just not good for anything. So, completely useless... it is just like putting a Zero...
Sorry for insisting anyway...
Thanks a lot
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Matt Barber brbrofsvl@gmail.com wrote:
If you're interested, there was a huge thread about this in February, starting about here:
http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2009-02/067889.html
It continues, too -- it will look like the thread "dies out," but if you look later in that month there will be many more posts with the same subject.
Matt
yep, sure, it works, but, anyway, I just think it would be easier for
some
operations if we could use "$0" in messages, that's all...
Thanks
Cheers
Alex