[PD-dev] gem vs. mrpeach strings?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 9, 2007, at 7:47 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> hi
>
> Martin Peach wrote:
>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, looks like I found another similar bug when  
>>> loading  [widget].  But [widget] fails to load at all:
>> Well OK, I'm still not clear on why the string patch should be the  
>> cause any of that.
>
> i don't think that your string patch has anything to do with _that_  
> one.
>
>> Yesterday I committed a change to the patch which just involves  
>> renaming string to blob.
>
> i think the problem is, that your patch introduces "reserved"  
> symbols in the first place.
> personally i would remove the entire [string <...>( message and  
> replace it by a [list <...>( (don't use a special selector)
>
>> I would like to know if the problems go away with that. (What's a  
>> consistency check? It's c++, right?)
>
> no, it's a pd thing. you also get this when you use weird (that is:  
> non pd-ish, user-defined) atoms and pd doesn't know how to handle  
> them.
>
>
> i am currently thinking of a proposal for user-defined atom-types,  
> which can be registered like classes and then be used by objects  
> like [str],... and (that is the important thing) do not interfere  
> with each other.
> i need this for a separate project, and it would be a cool feature  
> for pd to have.

What kind of other atom types are you thinking?  Like int?  I suppose  
to make Pd into a full-fledged programming language, it would be  
useful to be able to support things like 128-bit floats, 32-bit ints,  
etc..

It would be good to have a clean way to support new atom types like  
strings, it also seems that this feature could open up a big can of  
worms.

.hc


------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
----

If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of  
exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an  
idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps  
it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into  
the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess  
himself of it.            - Thomas Jefferson