[GEM-dev] entry and program strings

[B. Bogart]

I was going to leave this stuff until PD has a string format that we can
use rather than a list or symbol.

Maybe this is a good time to push it through.

Johannes, what is this about a string format as a list of ascii values?
sounds handy and related to any2ascii as well...

.b..

IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> james tittle wrote:
>
>> hey all,
>>
>> ...finally getting over the flu, or whatever it was:  not a good way  to
>
>
> hija. good to hear that everythings good now.
>
>> start the year!  I decided to give ben's [entry] another go since  the
>> fixes/corrections in december, and sure enough it's working  correctly
>> now...
>>
>> ...so now I'm trying to figure out how use this as an input to the
>> various program objects (glsl, arb):  I can see that it's outputting
>> a symbol list, but it also produces the weird "escaping" for "," and
>> ";", so I'm a bit unsure as to how to parse the input into a usable
>> program string?  Is the idea to just look for "\\\", removing that
>> and just using the following symbol?
>>
>> ...also wondering if we're going to need to include other escaping,
>> like for returns or other punctuations that are generally found in
>> shader programs:  I'm pretty sure that opengl can handle strings
>> without returns, but don't have the spec/manual in front of me...
>>
>
> GLSL doesn't care about line-breaks just like C.
> however debugging will be harder (try to find the error in line-1!).
>
> which other characters are needed?
> i will have a look at the escaping (bset thing would be to de-escape in
> the C-part of [entry])
>
> mfg.adsr
> IOhannes
>
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