[PD-dev] gem vs. mrpeach strings?
IOhannes m zmoelnig
zmoelnig at iem.at
Sat Nov 10 09:45:48 CET 2007
Martin Peach wrote:
> IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>
>> how will your [str] object handle an incoming gemlist?
>
> If it's passed as a "string", a pointer to a block of bytes with a definite
> length, then it will process it the same way as any other block of bytes,
> perhaps not usefully.
right.
>
>> how will a gem-object using your blobs handle an incoming "string"?
>>
>
> It would need to verify that the incoming "string" data was of the right
> kind. Possibly the first few bytes would be some kind of selector. The data
right.
this is the problem i want to address.
pd already has a typed atoms, why would one want to add atoms of
"unknown" type and then implement an extra type-check in each and every
object/library that introduces a new type.
what happens if 2 different types chose the same magic bytes to
determine whether the data is "correct"?
i would like to have a dynamic assignment of "atom-types" to
user-defined types.
mfg.asdr
IOhannes
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