[PD-dev] new developer - jasch

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On May 11, 2006, at 8:19 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 May 2006, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>>>
>>> You will have to be careful about nameclashes. You may also find  
>>> that
>>> several of your externals already have an equivalent under another
>>> name in
>>> Pd.
>>
>>
>> Nameclashes aren't such an issue with namespaces/Pd-extended.  But  
>> yes,
>
>
> i think matju did not mean _these_ nameclashes (correct me if i'm
> wrong), but rather _those_ where a max object and a pd object share  
> the
> name but not the functionality.
> which would give you a false sense of security of a successfull
> patch-conversion.

That's what cyclone is for.  Objects from any other library should  
not be assumed to be Max compatible, as a rule.  There are already  
plenty of duplicated max object names with differing functionality,  
including in the core, so it doesn't seem so useful to start worrying  
about that now.

.hc

>
>> its good to avoid needless nameclashes.
>>
>
> it's also good to avoid necessary nameclashes.
>
>
> mfg.vser.
> IOhannes
>
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