<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div></div><div></div><div>><font face="arial" color="black" size="2"> From patching I know that it would be far more convenient to be able to reference the patch-local $0 variable in messages.</font></div><div><font face="arial" color="black" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial" color="black" size="2">That's what users have requested $0 in msg boxes to do for over </font></div><div><font face="arial" color="black" size="2">a decade. And that is what Ico implemented in Pd-l2ork.<br></font></div><div><font face="arial" color="black" size="2"><br></font><div>> Perhaps in that case <span style="font-size:10pt;">there should also be a [selector] object that reports the selector of a message? getting it using [route] seems</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:10pt;">unnecessarily complicated..</span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;">What is wrong with [my_selector(--[list]--[$1(</span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;">Also-- I'm not familiar with any cases where a user has requested </span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;">the ability to reference the selector with $0. I'm only familiar with </span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;">cases where a user has requested getting ce_dollarzero in msg </span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;">boxes, a dev denying it, then another dev suggesting that $0 could </span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;">expand to the selector in msg boxes without providing a use case.<br></span></div>
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<div>> On the other hand, having $0 represent the selector would be the most consistent solution, because you can not get other patch-local variables</div>
<div>or arguments in message boxes, [...]</div><div><br></div><div>I don't understand what the word "solution" means here. If users </div><div>have repeatedly requested msg box $0 to expand to glist's </div><div>ce_dollarzero, why would Pd Vanilla give $0 in msg boxes a </div><div>different function that is incompatible with object box $0?</div><div><br></div>-Jonathan</div><div id="ydpc79a12f4yahoo_quoted_3687264150" class="ydpc79a12f4yahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;">
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