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