I'd say this is a "paper cut." It's a small issue easily worked around by the 
addition of an extra step, but that extra step is painful due to it's 
repetition. Also, I've seen it be a confusing step for many beginners once they 
learn to use $0 in objects, ie [f $0], [symbol $0], etc.

I'm on the side of $0 in message boxes. I don't see how this change would break 
anything since $0 currently resolves to 0 (I think), and I cannot imagine 
anyone relying on this. Is it a controversy?

> On Sep 4, 2018, at 9:41 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 21:02:39 -0700
> From: Miller Puckette <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> To: Alexandre Torres Porres <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Cc: Henri Augusto Bisognini <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>, pd-dev
>       <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Subject: Re: [PD-dev] roadmap for Pd-0.49?
> Message-ID: <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>
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> 
> This one is mired in controversy.  Meanwhile, you can get "$0" functionality
> in a message box by preceeding it with "list prepend $0" so that $1 in the
> message box is teh patch's $0 and the other $ arguments are renumbered by one.
> 
> cheers
> Miller

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