[PD] Finding "$0" and dealing with it in messages

[Alexandre Porres]

hmm, great, thanks, that is what I wondered, if anyone had bothered to bring
this up.

Anyway, from the thread:

"you are violating the 3rd rule of $-expansion: "there is no $0 in
message-boxes"."


I can deal around with it... but I just wonder if this third rule could be
easily revised/changed. I don't see much of a problem, and it would make
some stuff easier. So, here is my plead in favor of this case, I support the
cause...

But if you say that it would be a pain in the ass, or argue that such rule
must be mantained for some logic reason, I am cool.

I've read something about:

"it would make $0 be even more complicated to understand"


But I totally disagree, I have been teaching a lot basic Pd around, and
people always get confused and think they can just throw "$0" in messages.
So I have to state and reinforce that there is an exception that it doesn't
work on messages. Without an exception at all, it should be easier to get
it, as I understand.

And despite all that, as I see, "$0" on messages is just not good for
anything. So, completely useless... it is just like putting a Zero...

Sorry for insisting anyway...

Thanks a lot


On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Matt Barber <brbrofsvl at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you're interested, there was a huge thread about this in February,
> starting about here:
>
> http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2009-02/067889.html
>
> It continues, too -- it will look like the thread "dies out," but if
> you look later in that month there will be many more posts with the
> same subject.
>
> Matt
>
>
> > yep, sure, it works, but, anyway, I just think it would be easier for
> some
> > operations if we could use "$0" in messages, that's all...
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Alex
>
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