[PD] here I go again..dynamic abstractions

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Tue Feb 10 07:57:43 CET 2009


On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Georg Werner hat gesagt: // Georg Werner wrote:
>> i mean message boxes. i think there is the misunderstanding. you dont
>> send $1 as a message, too. not as message nor creation argument.
>> its an expanded string inside an object or when it leaves a messagebox.
> $0 is just an abstraction counter shifted by 1000. How about making $0 in
> messages be a message counter?

If it were just a side-effect of the logical similarity between messages 
and objects, it would be fine, but otherwise, messages are too transient 
for this to have any meaning, so I wouldn't bother with writing any code 
to support that.

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