skidoo

[Juha Vehviläinen]

Hi,

it seems, you need [list skidoo 23( --> [$2 until $1(

Now, wouldn't it make sense to interpret messages with
text as symbols, and messages with spaces as lists?
I'm sure there's a reason why not.. or is there?

J.


> hi,
>
> somehow related is this problem I stumbled over recently:
>
> dollar signs in messages seem to react strange when they get a two-part
> message that starts with a symbol instead of a float. In the attached
> patch, I used the example from the html-docs: [23 skidoo( sent to
> [$2 until $1( which works fine this way, but not the other way around:
>
> [skidoo 23( ---> [$2 until $1(
>
> results in "error: $2: argument number out of range"
>
> Is this the intended behaviour?
>
> ciao,