[PD-dev] overriding "internals"

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Sun Nov 11 02:34:57 CET 2007


On Sat, 10 Nov 2007, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

>> Why?  For example, [list append] will happily append a symbol to a
>> float, so the "list" part doesn't seem so accurate.  Why not just [append]?
> probably because of [append] already exists?

Tcl has "l" letter prefixes for list operations, but it is not consistent 
about that convention. Tcl has something like Pd's [list] for string 
operations, e.g. [string compare $a $b]. A third naming system uses 
C++-style "::" as a namespace delimiter.

>> The libtkwidget.so would be included in the libdir to make it a simple
>> package.
> so how do you convince the ldopen to look for the libtkwidget.so in your
> libdir instead of whatever is configured in /etc/ld.so.conf?
> i guess, adding your libdir path to /etc/ld.so.conf disqualifies it as
> "a simple package".
> i would really be interested in a solution for this.

Use environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

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