<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>That's not a bad idea, but I think it would have to be a construction that wouldn't break backwards compatibility.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>I suppose I can't think of an obvious case where something like @1 would currently be used inside a message box. But with backwards compatibility an accumulation of edge cases can be just as frustrating as breaking obvious cases. Also, the fact that these
variables would be able to get expanded within a string makes more edge cases likely.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>-Jonathan<br></span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Friday, September 12, 2014 5:36 AM, i go bananas
<hard.off@gmail.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv8064153722"><div dir="ltr"><div class="yiv8064153722gmail_extra">what about using a new symbol altogether for message boxes to pass creation arguments and $0 value?</div><div class="yiv8064153722gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="yiv8064153722gmail_extra">maybe @0. @1, etc???</div></div>
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