[PD-dev] future of [declare]

[Roman Haefeli]

hi all

i made some tests with the new [declare] in 0.42.0test5. here the
results:

-lib and -stdlib:
those expand the global namespace. when having [declare -stdlib
extra/zexy] somewhere, all zexy classes are available for any patches.

-path and -stdpath:
they expand the namespace of the parent patch and all its (the parents)
children patches, children's children inclusive. to be more clear: a
[declare] in abstraction [foo] expands the namespace of abstraction
[bar], when both are instantiated in the same patch. also the parent
patch's namespace is expanded, but not the parent's of the parent.
other patches with no relationship are not affected at all by -path and 
-stdpath.

this behaviour differs quite significantly from the implementations of
declare in previous pd versions. also, unlike announced, it is _not_
disabled within abstractions. personally, i think, that is the best
[declare] implementation that we ever had. i think, it covers many of
the use cases one can think of, also because it affects the parent
patch. because all of that, i really hope, that the  declare's
'philosophy' won't change too much in the future. out of curiosity and
out of the need of a reliable behaviour: what are the future plans for
[declare]? will it basically stay as it is (which i personally hope)?

roman




	
		
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