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

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> The weird thing is that if you auto-generate the comment with the 1.,
> then it survives a copy-paste.  Try the patch in the bug tracker, if you
> haven't already.

It's because you make it as a single symbol. In Pd, gensym() can turn any
null-terminated string into a symbol. When you copy+paste, the contents of
the comment don't change, they point to the same symbol. When you save to 
a file, however, it gets printed without quoting, because quoting is not 
supported (or not fully), so for a lot of possible symbols there's no 
syntax that you can use to produce them literally, you have to go thru 
gensym() explicitly instead (e.g. [sprintf]).

Copy+paste only copies a t_atom[] whereas saving/loading calls 
binbuf_save/binbuf_eval.

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