[PD] (breaking symbols) was Re: find a list of numbers in a text file

[Jonathan Wilkes]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
> To: Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org>
> Cc: "pd-list at iem.at" <pd-list at iem.at>
> Sent: Friday, September 9, 2011 6:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] (breaking symbols) was Re: find a list of numbers in a text file
> 
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2011, 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]: There's no 
> [route "15"] in Pd, where "15" should mean a numerical 
> symbol.
> 
> I proposed such a syntax in the past... 2006-2007, I think.
> 
> It would take care of :
> 
> "15" = \15 but looks less weird
> 
> "" = really an empty string (just like the &s_ given by 
> A_DEFSYMBOL, that you nearly can't produce otherwise)

[symbol(

> 
> "hello      world" = hello\ \ \ \ \ \ world 
> but less annoying to type.
> 
> "hello   " = hello\ \ \  but at least it wouldn't be 
> confusing like ending a symbol by backslash space and then immediately using a 
> space separator.
> 
> ";" = \;
> 
> "," = \,
> 
> but it means :
> 
> " would be syntax error
> 
> \" would mean double-quote char
> 
> "\"" too
> 
> Those conventions are very similar to Tcl and Bash.
> 
> However, I don't know what "$1" would do, nor why it's a good 
> idea, or a bad idea.

Also, how do you go about converting all the places in the current 
documentation where comments have quotes in them?

-Jonathan

> 
> Also, how do we quote ";" when writing to a file ? a literal semicolon 
> in a messagebox would be written as \;, which has to be written 
> \\\; in the file, but if a user were to write ";", what 
> will the messagebox write to the .pd file ?
> 
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