[PD] (breaking symbols) was Re: find a list of numbers in a text file
Jonathan Wilkes
jancsika at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 6 18:30:25 CEST 2011
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> From: fbar <fbar at footils.org>
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> On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 09:44:33AM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>> I'm not sure what "appears in the patch" should mean. It
> definitly means
>> that numercial-symbol selectors don't get shown and cannot be written
>> into a patch, so you cannot use them in the editor where "real"
>> selectors should be written, like in [route].
>
> Forgot to add: Of course it is possible and legal to "use" numerical
> or
> non-printable symbols as selectors, but they have to be constructed
> dynamically and cannot be typed, in accordance with the restrictions
> mentioned in the manual. Instead something like this can be used:
>
> [makefilename %d]
> |
> | [makefilename %d]
> | |
> [select symbol-dummy]
>
> I used [makefilename %d] a lot in the rj library's [m_chorddict]
> dictionary for chords, where some chord names are proper symbols, like
> "m7", while others are floats like 7. The float-names get converted to
> symbols internally to look up chord notes in a data structure array
> keyed by symbols only (using [m_symbolarray]).
At what point are you using numerical-symbol selectors? Everything you've
described has the selector 'symbol'.
If you mean you let the user send symbols or floats as the key and convert
internally, that's _exactly_ what I'm proposing.
>
> Ciao
> --
> Frank
>
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