[PD] escaping \

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, martin pichlmair wrote:

> > > Good idea... Maybe, just "addcomma" would be best. I'm against adding a
> > > general escape mechanism, because I think it's better to find a design
> > > that obviate teh need for it...
> > Could you please elaborate on what »design that obviates the need for it«
> > means to you?
> as clearly stated in my mail, that's a quote from a message by miller from
> 2002. see the full text here:
> http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2002-10/008321.html
> i would love to learn, too

Well, I believe that there is no such design that can really obviate the
need for a general escape mechanism.

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