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

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Tim Blechmann wrote:

> the difference is, pd patches are not written in a text editor (at 
> least, this is the usual case, i know, it's possible) and the parsing 
> order is not transparent to the user ...

Right, that's it. There are interactive interpreters/compilers, for most 
languages (except mainly C, C++, ObjC, Java, C#, VB). However those 
usually don't result in things that get dumped to files (with the notable 
exceptions of Smalltalk and SELF).

> unlike other interpreted languages, changes to the patch are done 
> immediately,

Smalltalk and SELF make changes effective immediately on a per-method 
basis. However, those languages don't really have a top-to-bottom parsing 
order unless you really insist to load the code from text files (which is 
not usual for Smalltalk and SELF).

> i.e. after changing something in the patch, there is no need to reload 
> the patch file (compared with python's 'reload' or recompiling with a 
> langugage like c/c++).

What pd needs here is the decoupling of creators from the classname-table, 
in such a way that it is possible to know what is the t_class associated 
to a given name, so that pd can know whether an object needs to be 
recreated or not, depending on whether the t_class associated with a name 
has changed or not.

> what makes you think, that this is similar in text-based languages?

What you just said clarifies the distinction that you wanted to make.

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