--- On Fri, 11/13/09, Roman Haefeli <reduzie...@yahoo.de> wrote:
> From: Roman Haefeli <reduzie...@yahoo.de> > Subject: Re: [PD] Finding "$0" and dealing with it in messages > To: "Roman Haefeli" <reduzie...@yahoo.de>, "Phil Stone" > <pkst...@ucdavis.edu>, "Mathieu Bouchard" <ma...@artengine.ca> > Cc: pd-list@iem.at > Date: Friday, November 13, 2009, 11:21 AM > This is obviously a loop. All this > has been said and proposed before in the > thread [1], that has been posted by alex porres a few posts > back. Sorry for > not having brought any new perspectives into the > discussion, but having just > repeated what has been said already. > > The only thing i don't really get: Why seems there some > agreement, that > using $0 to get the selector could be confusing? > > It would certainly end the discussions about the special > (somehow undefined) > state it has now. You can already use [symbol] to get the selector of an incoming message. I can't think of many patches where I would utilize $0 to get the selector, but I can think of lots of abstractions where treating $0 in msg boxes the same as in object boxes would have been very convenient. -Jonathan _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list