Has the backlash been integrated as an escape character in the pd's editing environment? Or is it still only useful in the file description format?<br><br>Tom<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/29/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Mathieu Bouchard</b> <<a href="mailto:matju@artengine.ca">matju@artengine.ca</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>some help for writing your <a href="http://puredata.org/dev/PdDefinitions">http://puredata.org/dev/PdDefinitions</a> ... those<br>are surely not the best wordings, but it adds detail.<br><br>comma (atom type): a comma character that is not backslashed, and thus is
<br>effective as a message separator in a messagebox.<br><br>semicolon (atom type): a semicolon character that is not backslashed, and<br>thus is effective as a message separator in any context. if there was any<br>implicit context (as in a messagebox), semicolon forgets it, and thus you
<br>get to write an explicit receiver after every semicolon.<br><br>dollar (in general): a nonbackslashed dollar sign followed by one or more<br>digits. in an evaluation, this can be worth a float, symbol or pointer,<br>whatever the corresponding argument in the argument list is.
<br><br>dollar (atom type): a dollar that is parsed individually; is replaced by<br>the corresponding atom upon evaluation.<br><br>dollsym (atom type) (missing): in pd 0.39 and earlier: a dollar<br>(subtitutor) that is at the beginning of an atom, followed by symbol
<br>characters. Upon substitution it becomes a symbol, as the corresponding<br>atom gets cast to characters and the symbols are merged to make one<br>resulting symbol.<br><br>dollsym (atom type) (missing): in pd 0.40 and earlier: any alternation of
<br>dollar (subtitutor) and normal symbol characters. All those dollar<br>substitutors get replaced by corresponding atoms cast to characters and<br>all the parts are merged to make one resulting symbol.<br><br>(The backslashing stuff may be important to understand if you expect to
<br>modify or generate patches using [textfile] like some people do; in<br>general it's good for understanding the fileformat)<br><br>Personally, I called "float" "symbol" "pointer" the stable atoms, whereas
<br>I call "comma" "semi" "dollar" "dollsym" the radioactive atoms, because<br>they decay upon being used by messageboxes. the radioactive atoms also<br>only really stay alive inside of messageboxes, so in general in pd you
<br>will only see functions/methods for handling stable atoms, not radioactive<br>ones.<br><br>I could've put this in the wiki directly, but wanted to make sure it gets<br>noticed (and also I'd like some feedback and to know what you'd change in
<br>this). Are there any automatic notifications of changes of wiki pages on<br><a href="http://puredata.info">puredata.info</a> (as a configurable option, per user) ? I mean by email, just<br>like for sf's bug tracker. It would be good to have this so that all
<br>parties involved in modifying pages really know about what's going on. It<br>gives the advantages of mailing-lists to wikis.<br><br> _ _ __ ___ _____ ________ _____________ _____________________ ...<br>| Mathieu Bouchard - tél:+1.514.383.3801, Montréal QC Canada
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