[PD] why no quoting mechanism?

[Miller Puckette]

I think backslashes and curly brackets are dropped - plus, of course, there's
no way to deal with character sets.  This is intimately mixed up with another
long-standing need to simplify the way stuff gets sent to the GUI - preferably
in a way that would allow plugging totally non-TK GUIs in front if/when the
oportunity or necessity comes.  So this will be a major re-code, probably
warranting its own release number.

cheers
Miller


On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 03:20:57PM +0000, Andy Farnell wrote:
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> 
> 
> Closely related to this issue, as far as I know it is still not
> possible to create certain characters in Pd at all. I forget now whether it
> was a backslash, foreslash or maybe colon, but last time I tried using all
> manner of ridiculous substitutions and [makefilename] with ascii
> character codes, and still couldn't do it.
> 
> We really do need a mechanism to move past this.
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> 
> On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 10:11:34 -0500
> Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
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> > 
> > I know this has been discussed before, but I just wanted to throw this  
> > question out there again:  why doesn't Pd have a quoting mechanism?  I  
> > think Max uses regular "" double quotes and I haven't heard too many  
> > complaints.  What are the pitfalls or hangups?  Perhaps its related to  
> > Pd not having an escape mechanism.
> > 
> > Is it just a matter of someone implementing it, or is there something  
> > else?
> > 
> > .hc
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