[PD-dev] BUG: namespace prefixes broken in 0.40

[Miller Puckette]

I'll have to think about this one... should be fixable, but might take
some new bookkeeping code to keep different objects disambiguated...

cheers
Miller

On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 05:19:00PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> I was just looking into the new canvas-based env and [declare]  
> stuff.  The canvas-specific path stuff is definitely a step in the  
> right direction.  But as it is now, namespace prefixes are totally  
> broken.   It is no longer possible to use [prefix/classname] syntax,  
> which is essential to the namespaces because it is the only way that  
> two classes with the same root classname could be used in the same  
> patch, i.e. like this, where each object is a different class:
> 
> [prepend]
> [cxc/prepend]
> [cyclone/prepend]
> 
> This is because with the new sys_onloadlist() functionality that  
> checks to see whether a class has already been loaded.  It only uses  
> the direct classname, not the prefix also.
> 
> .hc
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