[PD-dev] overriding "internals"

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 10, 2007, at 8:34 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> 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 key question remains: what benefit is there to adding special  
syntax for list functions?  Basically everywhere else, only the first  
element is ever the selector.

.hc



>
>>> 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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