[PD] (breaking symbols) was Re: find a list of numbers in a text file
Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans at at.or.at
Tue Sep 6 21:55:17 CEST 2011
On Sep 6, 2011, at 2:55 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2011, fbar wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> If you put a single leading backslash in front of the number in
> the .pd file, you will get A_SYMBOL in pd, but Pd will save it back
> to A_FLOAT because it will forget to add the backslash... likewise
> if you edit the box containing that symbol.
Wow, that's fascinating. So Pd already has a way to store and load
symbols like "43". Miller, any comment on that? Or is it just a side
effect of something else.
Here's a little example of this in action (this time with patch
attached):
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