[PD] keycode dropped/use of curly braces

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

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On 2012-09-03 20:10, Thomas Grill wrote:
> 
> Am 03.09.2012 um 17:44 schrieb IOhannes m zmoelnig:
> 
>> 
>> curly braces are reserved in tcl (the language pd-gui is written
>> in). displaying a "{" will make pd-gui wait for a matching "}",
>> and while it does so, it will hang.
>> 
> 
> I have always thought (and still do) that this is a really bad
> excuse. As in any other proper language one can always escape
> reserved characters, same in TCL.

definitely.
i'd say it _is_ a bug, and forbidding curly braces is not a fix but a
workaround.
(btw, with Pd-0.43 i now _can_ [print] curly braces (they show up as
"\{", though, so it's only halfway...)

> On the other hand, the TCL language makes my eyes bleed, so i can't
> try to fix it.

:-)

fgmasdr
IOhannes
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