[PD-dev] $0 in messages, was: multiple $arg-expansion

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>
> however, i think that "$0" is a bad name.
> i would have liked it better if $0 was the selector (in messages) and 
> the classname (in abstractions).
> probably "$$" would have been better for a uniq id (well, i know that 
> this is a bashism (its the process-id in bash), but that is not 
> necessarily bad)
> 

forgot to add that these are just thoughts that will never 
(probability=99.9%) be implemented in pd, since the names have been 
there for quite some times, and this change would break an awful lot of 
patches.
it's a pity.

but i would still like to have the possibilities to get the selector of 
a message (as a symbol) and to get the classname of an abstraction.

of course we could just use "$$" for *that* (but it would be no bashism 
any more)

mf.asdr.
IOhannes