hmm, great, thanks, that is what I wondered, if anyone had bothered to bring this up.<div><br></div><div>Anyway, from the thread:<br><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><pre>
"you are violating the 3rd rule of $-expansion: "there is no $0 in message-boxes"."
</pre><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br></span></font></div></span></div><div>I can deal around with it... but I just wonder if this third rule could be easily revised/changed. I don't see much of a problem, and it would make some stuff easier. So, here is my plead in favor of this case, I support the cause...</div>
<div><br></div><div>But if you say that it would be a pain in the ass, or argue that such rule must be mantained for some logic reason, I am cool.</div><div><br></div><div>I've read something about:</div><div><br></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><pre>"it would make $0 be even more complicated to understand"</pre></span></div><div><br></div><div>But I totally disagree, I have been teaching a lot basic Pd around, and people always get confused and think they can just throw "$0" in messages. So I have to state and reinforce that there is an exception that it doesn't work on messages. Without an exception at all, it should be easier to get it, as I understand.</div>
<div><br></div><div>And despite all that, as I see, "$0" on messages is just not good for anything. So, completely useless... it is just like putting a Zero... </div><div><br></div><div>Sorry for insisting anyway...</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks a lot</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Matt Barber <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brbrofsvl@gmail.com">brbrofsvl@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">If you're interested, there was a huge thread about this in February,<br>
starting about here:<br>
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<a href="http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2009-02/067889.html" target="_blank">http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2009-02/067889.html</a><br>
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It continues, too -- it will look like the thread "dies out," but if<br>
you look later in that month there will be many more posts with the<br>
same subject.<br>
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Matt<br>
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> yep, sure, it works, but, anyway, I just think it would be easier for some<br>
> operations if we could use "$0" in messages, that's all...<br>
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> Thanks<br>
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> Cheers<br>
><br>
> Alex<br>
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