[PD] [PD-dev] Should message objects be able to pre-parse $0 into valid dollarzero?

[Miller Puckette]

I think it would be easy enough to implement (message boxes would simply
save $0 and put it somewhere when the message was getting passed - with
some ugliness about recursion to worry about.)

But I'd like to find a solution that somehow allows accessing $1, etc, 
from either context.  I can't find a good design that would accomodate this.
(And as always, when I can't think of a good design, I simply work on
something else instead hoping I or someone else will think of something good
in the future :)

M

On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 04:19:10PM -0400, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
> Miller et al,
> 
> The current code suggests that this should happen (binbuf_eval calls the
> appropriate function), but since canvas_setcurrent is never called, it fails
> and returns 0.
> 
> Yet, I wonder why message shouldn't be able to pre-parse $0 into a valid
> dollarzero (canvas instance), when there will never be a message one could
> send into it that could trump this argument (how would one specify an
> argument $0 anyhow)? I do understand that message is not meant to pre-parse
> values, but shouldn't this be an exception? That way one creating a message
> with an instance included does not have to go through the trouble of
> creating an [$0] object that needs to be packed with the rest of the list
> and then forwarded onward to a message object.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> If others are in favor of this idea, should this take place for all types of
> messages passed into message object (bang, list, anything, blob, etc.)?
> 
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