[PD] symbolatom: why does it not allow to type spaces?

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Roman Haefeli wrote:

> why does the symbolatom not allow the user to enter spaces? or in other
> words: why is there a restriction, if it can be circumvented by using
> [makefilename]? people do it anyway, so why prohibit it in the first
> place?

I don't know. In DesireData, if I connect a symbolbox to a [print], and 
type something, I get something like this in the console:

   print: symbol real\ people\ want\ to\ use\ spaces!

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