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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Here's my summary of the proposals mentioned here:

I agree that $0 is totally arbitrary and is not inherintly bound to  
object boxes. I think this strongest proposed fix is to introduce $$  
which works in both object and message boxes, its a nice parallel to  
Bourne Shell syntax.  On that note, I think this should also come with  
Bourne Shell's $# for count of argument and $@ for a list of all  
arguments.  I think $$, $#, and $@ should work in both message and  
object boxes. So:

messages:
- $$ provides unique ID number
- $# provides argument count from incoming message
- $@ provides the list of arguments from incoming message

objects:
- $$ provides unique ID number
- $# provides argument count from incoming message
- $@ provides the list of arguments from incoming message

Now, all we need is someone to code  it :) I am certainly willing to  
try such a patch in the Pd-extended test builds.  And if it is proven  
to work without causing problems, then it could be included in final  
release, and hopefully work its way into Pd-vanilla as well.

I guess the place to start is someone putting together a proposal wiki  
page so we can document all the details.  Here's the place for it:
http://puredata.info/dev

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