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

[Billy Stiltner]

not sure if this helps and not sure what you guys are talking about but
once I figured out how to use the same control for different objects I
found that that did not work, the switching of the control to update a
different object works great but since my synth used the controls as a
storage object for the actual initialization as in a model view controller
type thing, i found that when a control was switched to say point to
envelope2 that envelope2 was not initialized so I have been back at the
drawing board.
http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/5724/dollar-signs-in-objects-and-messages

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list <
pd-list at lists.iem.at> wrote:

> That's not a bad idea, but I think it would have to be a construction that
> wouldn't break backwards compatibility.
>
> I suppose I can't think of an obvious case where something like @1 would
> currently be used inside a message box.  But with backwards compatibility
> an accumulation of edge cases can be just as frustrating as breaking
> obvious cases.  Also, the fact that these variables would be able to get
> expanded within a string makes more edge cases likely.
>
> -Jonathan
>
>
>   On Friday, September 12, 2014 5:36 AM, i go bananas <hard.off at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> what about using a new symbol altogether for message boxes to pass
> creation arguments and $0 value?
>
> maybe @0. @1, etc???
>
>
>
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