[PD] External with inline code snippet

[Claude Heiland-Allen]

Carlos Pita wrote:
> Hi all,
> I want to write an external that will evaluate a bit of scheme code, 
> something along the venue of expr~ but adding the possibility of 
> evaluate simple control structures too (but inline, not in external 
> scripts as is the case of pyext). What kind of parameter should I 
> declare for my external constructor? If I declared A_GIMME, can I assume 
> that the code will have been splitted just at whitespaces and so it's 
> safe to reassemble it joining the fragments?
> Thank you in advance.
> Cheers,
> Carlos

If expr/expr~/fexpr~ can do it, it must be possible.

However, these characters are treated specially by Pd:

\
{
}
$
;
,


which may cause problems...

I want to do the same for Haskell, and all of those characters are part 
of the common syntax.  Guess I need to write a preprocessor...


Claude
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