[PD] PdDefinitions

[Thomas O Fredericks]

Has the backlash been integrated as an escape character in the pd's editing
environment? Or is it still only useful in the file description format?

Tom

On 9/29/07, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:
>
>
> some help for writing your http://puredata.org/dev/PdDefinitions ... those
> are surely not the best wordings, but it adds detail.
>
> comma (atom type): a comma character that is not backslashed, and thus is
> effective as a message separator in a messagebox.
>
> semicolon (atom type): a semicolon character that is not backslashed, and
> thus is effective as a message separator in any context. if there was any
> implicit context (as in a messagebox), semicolon forgets it, and thus you
> get to write an explicit receiver after every semicolon.
>
> dollar (in general): a nonbackslashed dollar sign followed by one or more
> digits. in an evaluation, this can be worth a float, symbol or pointer,
> whatever the corresponding argument in the argument list is.
>
> dollar (atom type): a dollar that is parsed individually; is replaced by
> the corresponding atom upon evaluation.
>
> dollsym (atom type) (missing): in pd 0.39 and earlier: a dollar
> (subtitutor) that is at the beginning of an atom, followed by symbol
> characters. Upon substitution it becomes a symbol, as the corresponding
> atom gets cast to characters and the symbols are merged to make one
> resulting symbol.
>
> dollsym (atom type) (missing): in pd 0.40 and earlier: any alternation of
> dollar (subtitutor) and normal symbol characters. All those dollar
> substitutors get replaced by corresponding atoms cast to characters and
> all the parts are merged to make one resulting symbol.
>
> (The backslashing stuff may be important to understand if you expect to
> modify or generate patches using [textfile] like some people do; in
> general it's good for understanding the fileformat)
>
> Personally, I called "float" "symbol" "pointer" the stable atoms, whereas
> I call "comma" "semi" "dollar" "dollsym" the radioactive atoms, because
> they decay upon being used by messageboxes. the radioactive atoms also
> only really stay alive inside of messageboxes, so in general in pd you
> will only see functions/methods for handling stable atoms, not radioactive
> ones.
>
> I could've put this in the wiki directly, but wanted to make sure it gets
> noticed (and also I'd like some feedback and to know what you'd change in
> this). Are there any automatic notifications of changes of wiki pages on
> puredata.info (as a configurable option, per user) ? I mean by email, just
> like for sf's bug tracker. It would be good to have this so that all
> parties involved in modifying pages really know about what's going on. It
> gives the advantages of mailing-lists to wikis.
>
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