<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yiv4378098391"><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yiv4378098391yqt0670964594" id="yiv4378098391yqtfd68488"></div><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div class="yiv4378098391yqt0670964594" id="yiv4378098391yqtfd25529">> What about people parsing Pd files in Pd? If they're searching for symbol "foo", are they going to have to deal with the edge case of symbol "foo\v"?</div><div class="yiv4378098391qtdSeparateBR"><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div><div class=".yiv4378098391yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480879099506_16330"><div id="yiv4378098391yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480879099506_7309" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div id="yiv4378098391yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480879099506_7308" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div class="yiv4378098391y_msg_container" id="yiv4378098391yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480879099506_7314"><div id="yiv4378098391"><div id="yiv4378098391yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480879099506_7313"><div id="yiv4378098391yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480879099506_7312" style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div class="yiv4378098391yahoo_quoted" id="yiv4378098391yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480873294076_4760" style="display:block;"><div id="yiv4378098391yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480873294076_4759" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div id="yiv4378098391yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480873294076_4758" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div class="yiv4378098391y_msg_container" id="yiv4378098391yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480873294076_4794"><div id="yiv4378098391"><div id="yiv4378098391yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480873294076_4793"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480879099506_16520">Ivica,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480879099506_16329">Just to give an example-- suppose someone is using a patch to store configuration data for their project. They type the config data as comments in the <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480879099506_16518">patch, much like [pd META]. Then they parse their patch from within Pd, using [textfile], or [text] or whatever.<br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480879099506_16517"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480879099506_16331">Now, if they decide to insert some newlines into the comments to make their config prettier, as far as I understand this ends up appending an invisible <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480879099506_16332">'\v' character to the last atom of each line. So the next time they read their config they will get corrupted data that's hard to debug because the <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480879099506_18798">character doing the corruption is non-printable.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480879099506_18799"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480879099506_18801"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480879099506_18804">That's the only direct downside I can see. But as a design pattern it's problematic-- there are other places in Pd where a dev tried to use an <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480879099506_18800">"obscure" character as a placeholder for something else. That approach usually ends up creating more bugs.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480879099506_18802"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1480879099506_18803">-Jonathan<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="yiv4378098391yqt0670964594" id="yiv4378098391yqtfd93407"> </div></div><div class="yiv4378098391yqt0670964594" id="yiv4378098391yqtfd71751"> </div></div><div class="yiv4378098391yqt0670964594" id="yiv4378098391yqtfd92650"> </div></div></div></body></html>