[PD-dev] weird bug: dot in comment disappears

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> Right... I forgot about this.  This is probably related to Pd not having a
> string type...

Yeah, comments are parsed by pd exactly like objectboxes. it's just that 
no actual object is instantiated (binbuf_eval is not called). That was 
necessary to avoid having to introduce strings in pd and/or making a 
special case for comments.

For Miller it was important to have a stupid typesystem. Now, if you load
20 abstractions with 20 comments/abstr with 20 words/comment, then you may
have up to 20*20*20=8000 new symbols in the symboltable, that have no
purpose whatsoever at actual execution.

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