On 04/01/2018 10:42 PM, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
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.
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)
apart from that, i wonder how you imagine your "external" (object) to fix Pd's message-box. for an external, $0 is expanded as you'd like it automatically anyhow.
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