[PD-dev] moving iemgui from core to extra

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> In a first step towards making Pd a micro-language,

I'd like to distinguish between micro-language and micro-environment. Pd 
is already a micro-language in the sense that it has a micro-syntax: a 
syntax that is very simple, and that anything that may look like 
additional syntax in pd, is built in terms of that micro-syntax. (Other 
languages that have micro-syntax are the Forth family, the Lisp family, 
and Tcl.)

Pd isn't a micro-environment because there's a lot of things present at 
runtime that aren't needed, but most of them aren't an obstacle for pd to 
be called a micro-language, because they fit in the handful of pd's 
syntactic/semantic rules.

> I propose moving the IEM GUI objects that are embedded in Pd into the 
> "extra" folder, compiled as individual files.

What's the advantage of doing that?

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