[PD-dev] new developer - jasch

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Fri, 12 May 2006, /*j wrote:

> not quite...
> as i found out there are some more differences, the missing int being the most
> prominent, and the vector alisasing being the most annoying.

what do you mean by vector aliasing? (note: i never coded with the MAX 
API)

> well, if you look at the list of names on my website you'll see that i avoid
> any max-names and try to come up with unique stuff, but i can always add a
> prefix or something. the worst offender is probably the string-lib with names
> like strcat (present in GEM i think), but it would be stupid to change these
> names because they correspond exactly to the c-function they enclose.

the "exactly" depends on the mapping system you are thinking in. Slightly
different ways of mapping C->Pd may have slightly different (and thus
completely incompatible) conventions.

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