<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div id="ydp31fbea4fyahoo_quoted_7793541023" class="ydp31fbea4fyahoo_quoted">> On Friday, May 10, 2019, 5:51:20 AM EDT, Julian Brooks <jbeezez@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydp31fbea4fyiv6569915528"><div dir="ltr"><div>> Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>> Is there a reason to not make use of a full stop in a namespace? <br></div><div>> E.G. [julianslib.dac~]?</div><div><br></div><div>Hi Julian,</div><div><br></div><div>One problem is that it causes something like the double <br></div><div>extra name collision avoidance problem.</div><div><br></div><div>1. A cautious user will always leverage Pd's general collision avoidance by prefixing your library's directory <br></div><div>name in the object box.</div><div>2. You, the developer, don't trust Pd's general collision avoidance to serve all possible <br></div><div>user needs, so you prefix a library name in the creator string.<br></div><div>3. Now the cautious user must type `[ditters/ditters.karl]` to create your object.</div><div><br></div><div>-Jonathan<br></div><div><br></div><div>> Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>> J.<br></div></div>
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