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However, I think an escaping mecanism (at least for $'s in messages) would indeed be vital. WHENEVER a special character exists, an escape character should exist, just in case.

yeah, i agree, some escaping mechanism would make a lot things much easier in pd.

The string object should allow you to do that; you would just replace the $ character with its ASCII code 36, then convert the string to a symbol when needed.

Martin