I found this in else/mono.pd, what's up with the semicolon? Is "tables" just a comment?

@jameslo My guess it was just a simple way to get the full name to fit in the space at the left of window, easier to hit a semicolon to get a newline than it is to resize with the mouse or move objects.

The subpatch name is only used as title for the subpatch window. You can type whatever you want and even tweak the pd file to show $0 value.
In this context the string following the semicolon is just ignored.

Seems like an undocumented feature. The kind that they teach you in school to never exploit.

Edit: only half serious about the finger-wagging

@jameslo It is documented, in the standard pd way, in other objects like [expr], or [text]. The semicolon is pds newline character and it inserts a newline after any unescaped semicolon it sees. I believe the only time a semicolon has a different behavior is in [msg( objects but even there it causes a newline and we can see how the send is sort of tacked onto the the primary function of being a newline.

@oid ...then I wonder if you would regard the tempo message to be documented for [makenote]? https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/13062/makenote-duration-can-use-tempo

@jameslo I was not suggesting that pd is consistent everywhere or even tries to be, was just hopping on board with the half serious finger waving because of all the time I have wasted over the years due to undocumented features and bugs so old that they should be considered features and be in the docs, but the explanation I tacked on probably confused that aspect.

This probably does fall into the category of things they teach you to never exploit, its really a quirk of the interface that could change and break your patches, which would really hurt me since I have one abstraction which relies on this quirk and I put a lot of time into it.

@oid Aw crap, I missed the fact that your tongue was half planted in your cheek. I'll do better next time. In the meantime, for your sake, I hope they never assign semantics to the text following the semicolon (in a subpatch identifier)!