[PD-dev] # converted to $

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Wed Nov 7 22:22:48 CET 2007


On Nov 7, 2007, at 4:19 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> It seems that somewhere in Pd # chars are being converted to $  
>> chars. I imagine this is support Max users who are used to #1  
>> vars. But I don't know of any use of # in Pd and I would like to  
>> be able to use webcolors as symbols (i.e. #ffbb00).
>
> No, it has nothing to do with Max, it has to do with Miller using  
> it as an escape mechanism because for some reason prepending a  
> backslash to a dollar sign would've been too clean.

Oh well...  I found a workaround...

.hc

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