[PD] Re: escaping \

Chris McCormick chris at mccormick.cx
Fri Jul 8 04:49:33 CEST 2005


On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 09:42:33PM +0200, pd-list-request at iem.at wrote:
> Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 21:11:06 +0200
> From: Tim Blechmann <TimBlechmann at gmx.net>
> Subject: Re: [PD] escaping \
> To: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
> Cc: pd-list <pd-list at iem.at>, martin pichlmair <pi at attacksyour.net>,
> 	Thoralf Schulze <thoralf_schulze at yahoo.de>
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> 
> > > > Well, I believe that there is no such design that
> > > > can really obviate the
> > > > need for a general escape mechanism.
> > > well, yeah. what about unicode, btw? After all, we are
> > > not living in the 1990s anymore ...
> > 
> > How about _strings_ too? we are not living in the 1950s anymore...
> > :-)
> well... use a professional programming language, if you need strings ...
> your answer would be ruby,
> kjetils answer would be scheme,
> my answer would be python

Hi Tim,

Can you please provide a good reason why puredata shouldn't carry the
features itself of 'a professional programming language'? It seems
somewhat hypocritical to complain about non-portability of patches and
then follow up with a comment like this, which would require users to
have every possible 3rd party scripting language installed if they want
to use strings.

Best regards,

Chris.

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