[PD] what distinguishes a numeric symbol as an argument?

[Mathieu Bouchard]

Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Acutally except for numeric symbols and for the "whitespace symbols" 
> [keyname] sometime generates one doesn't meet "strange symbols" a lot in 
> real life, so it's not a real issue in practice.

One doesn't meet those strange symbols in real life, and it's because 
those symbols are a real issue in practice, so, people avoid them 
carefully.

The reason you call those symbols strange, is because of the way that pd 
handles them; it's not because of their own characteristics.

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