[PD-dev] missing file from pd-MAIN and fftw version

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Wed Sep 27 09:53:06 CEST 2006


Hallo,
Mathieu Bouchard hat gesagt: // Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> 
> >But, yes: This would be worse, if you wouldn't even know, which [+ ] 
> >object is used, depending on which namespace is active.
> 
> The decoupling of the name and the thing that the name refers to, is 
> called late binding.

I was referring only to the printed form of a patch: If the printout
doesn't include any information about active namespaces, it will
become very hard to read a patch.

> >However I don't want to be forced to write patches like:
> >[pdcore/float]
> 
> If namespaces force you to write complete names all of the time, then 
> there is no difference between that and just considering slashes as part 
> of the name and not thinking about namespaces.

Exactly.

Ciao
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