[GEM-dev] TextBase class

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

Georg Holzmann wrote:
> Hallo!
> 
>> of course this (like [l2s]) will polute the symbol-hash and (what is 
>> more important) will add a memory-leak (as symbols that once appear in 
>> a pd-sessions will stay there forever)
> 
> yes ... :(

it is not a very big problem, i think (of course a memory-leak, or what 
appears to be a memory-leak, is always a problem)

in most cases you will not manage to fill up your memory (only if you 
really generate a lot of symbols on the fly)

> 
>> so a string-type would really be nice.
> 
> anyway, would it make much sense, if we use lists for that?
> e.g.
> 
> [list this is a long text over more lines(
>  |
> [maxchar 10] (or a more meaningful name ...)
>  |
> [list this is a \n long text \n over more \n lines(
>  |
> [text2d]


otoh, TextBase generates a string out of the incoming list anyhow.
it does not care whether the "\n" is a separate symbol or hidden within 
a symbol: "bi \n ba" is the same string (on the TexBase-side) as "bi" 
"\n" "ba" (using " " as a separator).
both should result in:
"bi
  ba"

(but none is "bi\nba"!)


and i do think [linebreak] is a better name than [maxchar] ;-)


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