[PD] suggestion: $0 in messages

Chris McCormick chris at mccormick.cx
Thu Apr 5 12:48:04 CEST 2018


On 03/04/18 21:52, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote:
> When users for a decade have said they wanted $0 in msg boxes,
> they mean that they want to use Pd's notion of send-symbol locality
> inside message boxes. They want that instead of manually querying
> the value of a reserved dollarsign variable and sending that value
> to the relevant message box in order to get "let" behavior.


Absolutely. Given some of Pd's other quirks the $0 issue seems like a 
funny time for semantic purity. The forks have given people what they want.

Cheers,

Chris.

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