Re: [PD] Finding "$0" and dealing with it in messages

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Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

Here's my summary of the proposals mentioned here:

I agree that $0 is totally arbitrary and is not inherintly bound to object boxes. I think this strongest proposed fix is to introduce $$ which works in both object and message boxes, its a nice parallel to Bourne Shell syntax. On that note, I think this should also come with Bourne Shell's $# for count of argument and $@ for a list of all arguments. I think $$, $#, and $@ should work in both message and object boxes. So:

messages:

• $$ provides unique ID number
• $# provides argument count from incoming message
• $@ provides the list of arguments from incoming message

objects:

• $$ provides unique ID number
• $# provides argument count from incoming message
• $@ provides the list of arguments from incoming message

Now, all we need is someone to code it :) I am certainly willing to try

i thought i had committed such a patch about 3 years ago to the sf patch tracker.

mfasr IOhannes