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

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:

> Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>> wouldn't need weird hacks in the pd source; but if anyone wanted to
>> reimplement old-style messageboxes, they'd need to find a way to disable
>> $-substitution in that case.
> you can get the "unparsed" arguments during runtime (though after 
> creation time) just fine. this is what every save-routine does (unless 
> somebody decides to really save 1053 instead of $0)

Yes, I thought of that, but just try it, you'll see: it'll complain about 
missing $1, $2, etc. as you try making such messageboxes, because the 
$-substitution does happen anyway even if you ignore it. Even though it 
technically would work, no-one would want to put up with those error 
messages.

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