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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 14, 2009, at 11:35 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> Someone could write their own message box object and make it do  
>> whatever they want.  Then you have both: a new interface and  
>> backwards compatibility.  The message box could just be a GUI  
>> object like any other, there is nothing inherently unique about it.
>
> It wouldn't even need to be a "GUI" object. just make it an  
> objectbox class named [m]. Then "$1" (etc) becomes the same as in  
> other objectboxes, and then another syntax can be used to mean  
> message arguments. Except that if it's not a GUI object, then it's  
> not clickable, and stuff.
>
> User-wise, there _is_ something inherently unique to the messagebox,  
> but it happens to be exactly the difference that we'd like to  
> eliminate.

Yeah, for clarification, there is nothing inherently unique in the  
implementation.  Someone could make their own message box.  I'd like  
to see that happen.

.hc

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