[PD] overriding objects

[Jonathan Wilkes]

--- On Thu, 3/24/11, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:

> From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
> Subject: Re: [PD] overriding objects
> To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Frank Barknecht" <fbar at footils.org>, pd-list at iem.at
> Date: Thursday, March 24, 2011, 6:50 PM
> On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Jonathan Wilkes
> wrote:
> 
> > "so if you load a patch with 87 [print]'s in there,
> what information do
> > you get if Pd prints 86 times 'dear user\, you are
> using matju's special
> > [print]\, which has problems with parens.'"
> 
> BTW, GF's [print] problems have been fixed. Parens such as
> [print f(x)] are allowed since 9.12, and parens in messages
> have lost their special meaning as of 9.13.
> 
> It took me a long time to do it because I still haven't
> dealt with some of the consequences of the 9.13 change, but
> I decided to go ahead anyway because I had postponed it too
> much, and the negative consequences mostly affect only some
> lesser-used features, not [print].
> 
> I also made a bunch of small changes to make GF's [print]
> closer to Pd's [print].

That's actually IOhannes' quote above.

BTW- why was he saying that 87 gf/print objects would print the message 
86 times?  I thought the message is posted in the setup routine which 
only gets called when the library is loaded.

-Jonathan

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