[PD-dev] under_scores versus studlyCaps in object names

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Mar 26, 2006, at 2:51 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hallo,
> Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> Should we make the new Pd libraries use capsAsTheStandardNameFormat?
>
> This can be a problem with operating systems not being able to know
> and uppercase from a lowercase letter.


Both NTFS and HFS are case-preserving but not case-sensitive.  So  
while both filesystems will store and display the correct caps, you'd  
be able to use any kind of caps in object boxes and it would work.

So yes, it would cause problems if people don't write the correct  
caps, but that's already a problem.  For example. pixelTANGO uses an  
object called [stripPath], but [strippath] exists first in the path.   
So when using [stripPath], Pd tried to load [strippath] first, but  
its a C object, and C is case-sensitive, so Pd couldn't find the  
symbol _stripPath_setup.  It then fails, and then opens stripPath.pd.

.hc

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