[PD] (breaking symbols) was Re: find a list of numbers in a text file
Jonathan Wilkes
jancsika at yahoo.com
Sat Sep 10 00:42:35 CEST 2011
----- Original Message -----
> From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
> To: Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org>
> Cc: "pd-list at iem.at" <pd-list at iem.at>
> Sent: Friday, September 9, 2011 6:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] (breaking symbols) was Re: find a list of numbers in a text file
>
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2011, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure what "appears in the patch" should mean. It
> definitly means that numercial-symbol selectors don't get shown and cannot
> be written into a patch, so you cannot use them in the editor where
> "real" selectors should be written, like in [route]: There's no
> [route "15"] in Pd, where "15" should mean a numerical
> symbol.
>
> I proposed such a syntax in the past... 2006-2007, I think.
>
> It would take care of :
>
> "15" = \15 but looks less weird
>
> "" = really an empty string (just like the &s_ given by
> A_DEFSYMBOL, that you nearly can't produce otherwise)
[symbol(
>
> "hello world" = hello\ \ \ \ \ \ world
> but less annoying to type.
>
> "hello " = hello\ \ \ but at least it wouldn't be
> confusing like ending a symbol by backslash space and then immediately using a
> space separator.
>
> ";" = \;
>
> "," = \,
>
> but it means :
>
> " would be syntax error
>
> \" would mean double-quote char
>
> "\"" too
>
> Those conventions are very similar to Tcl and Bash.
>
> However, I don't know what "$1" would do, nor why it's a good
> idea, or a bad idea.
Also, how do you go about converting all the places in the current
documentation where comments have quotes in them?
-Jonathan
>
> Also, how do we quote ";" when writing to a file ? a literal semicolon
> in a messagebox would be written as \;, which has to be written
> \\\; in the file, but if a user were to write ";", what
> will the messagebox write to the .pd file ?
>
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