[PD-dev] # converted to $

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

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 

afaik, it was thomas musil who introduced the #/$ weirdness in the iemguis.

matju, it would be nice if you would not start a flame war against 
miller at each and every single inconsistency found in pd-vanilla.
he is not the only one who has written code in pd-vanilla, lots of sh!t 
has been thought of and implemented by others (like me).


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