That's funny... the reason $0 starts at 1000 and not 0 is because in Max the $ variables were printffed into the boxes themselves and I wanted to keep all the $ variables (at least the first 8999 of them) to the same width as a character string.
Anyway, $0 uses true integers, so that it's unlikely they will ever reach zero (you'd have to fill your address speace 100s of times)... so I think you're safe.
cheers Miller On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 10:04:02AM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hi,
I would like to check, if $0 was passed as an argument to an abstraction. The usual idiom is:
[loadbang] | [f $1] assuming, $0 was passed as $1 | [select 0] | this is $0 nowNow of course this fails, if $0 also can be zero itself. I know, that currently this is very unlikely, because $0 starts at 1000 and grows. But it would be great if possible future changes to the $0-implementation would still rule out 0 as a value for $0, so that the test from above will keep working.
Ciao
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