[PD-dev] missing file from pd-MAIN and fftw version

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Thu Sep 28 01:24:09 CEST 2006


On Sep 27, 2006, at 3:53 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hallo,
> Mathieu Bouchard hat gesagt: // Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>>
>>> But, yes: This would be worse, if you wouldn't even know, which [+ ]
>>> object is used, depending on which namespace is active.
>>
>> The decoupling of the name and the thing that the name refers to, is
>> called late binding.
>
> I was referring only to the printed form of a patch: If the printout
> doesn't include any information about active namespaces, it will
> become very hard to read a patch.

The namespaces could be stored as a property of the canvas, while  
[import] objects or [;pd-patch.pd import( messages would be the way  
to manipulate those stored properties.

.hc


>>> However I don't want to be forced to write patches like:
>>> [pdcore/float]
>>
>> If namespaces force you to write complete names all of the time, then
>> there is no difference between that and just considering slashes  
>> as part
>> of the name and not thinking about namespaces.
>
> Exactly.
>
> Ciao
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