[PD] could the handling of local variables in message boxes be made easier?

[Johannes Taelman]

And if this aspect of PD changes, please please, add a complete 
character escape mechanism, to be able to get literal '$', newline, 
backslash, comma, semicolomn, and spaces in a symbol.

Now pd is only 99% compatible with ASCII. I think the escape mechanism 
can be compatible with old patches, since there are only numbers used 
after a '$'.

That would allow to send eg. "set $; target1 $$*" to a message box.

regards,
  j#|@

Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> IOhannes m zmoelnig hat gesagt: // IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> 
> 
>>Frank Barknecht wrote:
>>
>>>While we're at it: I would *LOVE* to have a variable length argument
>>>called $* as in bash, that just matches all incoming messages. Then
>>
>>isn't this $@ ?
> 
> 
> $* and $@ are almost the same, only quoting is handled differnently.
> See section "Special Parameters" in bash(1)
>  
> 
>>and while we are at it: $# would be cool too.
> 
> 
> You got me. ;)
> 
> ciao