[PD-dev] net objects

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Apr 30, 2006, at 11:10 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>> no i am fine with that, it is always good to learn something.
>> i had a hard time to find a short and pregnant name for the object  
>> and
>> when i finally found [relay] i was quite happy.
>> however, i will be happy to use a better name if somebody finds  
>> one...
>
> [route2] makes it clear that this is supposed to be a variant of  
> [route].
> I don't think of the appended "2" to be sooo clever, but I prefer that
> rather than choosing another word.
>
> OTOH, I *did* call [shunt] what used to be called [demux] because of a
> name conflict. We were used to semantics of jMax's [demux] and  
> that's what
> available in [shunt]. I don't know whether I'd still take the same
> decision if I had the occasion to.
>
> IMHO, having super clear names isn't that important as long as help  
> files
> are just a click away. Eventually, help will be zero click away, given
> enough tooltips.

It should be memorable.  If you can remember the object name, then  
the help file is not going to help you.

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