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

[Matt Barber]

There are plenty of bugs still, but this might be the type of thing
one could do without having to code a new object.

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Matt Barber <brbrofsvl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's a start -- it requires [s2l] and [l2s] from zexy, though (there
> may be a way to do it vanilla, but possibly not).
>
> Matt
>
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:
>> On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>>> Someone could write their own message box object and make it do whatever
>>> they want.  Then you have both: a new interface and backwards compatibility.
>>>  The message box could just be a GUI object like any other, there is nothing
>>> inherently unique about it.
>>
>> It wouldn't even need to be a "GUI" object. just make it an objectbox class
>> named [m]. Then "$1" (etc) becomes the same as in other objectboxes, and
>> then another syntax can be used to mean message arguments. Except that if
>> it's not a GUI object, then it's not clickable, and stuff.
>>
>> User-wise, there _is_ something inherently unique to the messagebox, but it
>> happens to be exactly the difference that we'd like to eliminate.
>>
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