[L2Ork-dev] $0 weirdness

[Ivica Ico Bukvic]

OK,

To get a better idea what I am doing here, is # only used at the 
beginning of a string (e.g. #0-something or #1), or can it be used 
anywhere (e.g. boo-#0 or blah#2boo)? Also, should it be escaped only if 
it is followed by a number? (e.g. #0 should be escaped, whereas # or 
#abc should not).

If you can provide some clarification what are traditional uses of this, 
perhaps I can put in some filtering to figure out how we can hopefully 
address both scenarios.

Finally, why do we even have #0 when one can simply write $0?

Best,

Ico

On 12/6/2015 1:34 AM, Albert Graef wrote:
> Hi Ico,
>
> On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 6:03 AM, Ivica Ico Bukvic <ico at vt.edu 
> <mailto:ico at vt.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Sorry it took me a while to respond--been busy with the OPERAcraft
>     production.
>
>
> No problem, thanks for taking the time to respond!
>
>     I hear what you're saying but there is no easy or graceful way to
>     fix this without getting into ugly string resizing business which
>     can be rather messy.
>
>
> That's true, but if it helps maintaining at least some kind of 
> interoperability with the other Pd flavors then it might be worth the 
> effort.
>
>     I, however, wonder if I shouldn't simply introduce a -legacy flag
>     and add this and iemgui position to a list of modifications that
>     break backwards compatibility in favor of progress. This would be
>     considerably easier to maintain.
>
>
> I thought about that, too. Yes, that would be a viable solution.
>
> Also, it would be nice to have a script to convert from and to the new 
> patch format. This would also be helpful to fix the affected 
> abstractions distributed with Pd-L2Ork.
>
>     Regarding supporting other platforms, Jonathan has been making
>     major progress on making the new node-webkit gui version build on
>     OSX as well as on Linux, so there may be more options soon.
>
>
> Yes, I ran into his github repo just recently. That's a very 
> interesting development, looking forward to give it a try!
>
>     All,
>
>     Please let me know what are your thoughts on the aforesaid
>     proposed course of action.
>
>
> I can only reiterate that this change *will* affect most Pd-L2Ork 
> users at some point, so I hope that others will join the discussion here.
>
> Albert
>
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