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

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Thomas Grill hat gesagt: // Thomas Grill wrote:

> I think nothing would be broken if $0 in messages means the canvas ID. 
> So far $0 in messages hasn't been used, or has it?
> To my mind that would be a fairly clear extension.

Nothing would break, of course, but getting the canvas ID into a
message already is easily possible with $-replacements as in 
[f $0]--[$1(

And just adding $0 to messages would still not solve accessing
abstraction arguments in messages.

What I would be interested in more is being able to use $0 and other
$x *literally*, for example to be able to dynamically create
objects which use $0 as argument like:
  
  [obj 100 100 f $0(
  |
  [s pd-subpatch]

to create a [f $0] in [pd subpatch] and not a [f 1001]. This would of
course conflict with replacing $0 by its current value in messages as
well.

So my vote still would be some #x.

Ciao
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