[PD] messages, text and symbols

[Miller Puckette]

Hi Thomas,

I would suggest passing strings as lists of numbers from 1 to 255.

cheers
Miller

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 11:26:55AM +0100, Thomas Grill wrote:
> Hi list,
> i have a rather basic question (which has most likely already been
> answered).
> 
> Sending a message to an object, are all textual elements converted into
> symbols (and supposedly stored by pd for future recognition)? - and if, is
> there a way to avoid that?
> In other words, can text be passed to an object without being processed by
> pd?
> 
> 
> thanks,
> Thomas
>