[PD-dev] pd-extended loadlib request

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 23, 2008, at 11:00 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> Georg Holzmann wrote:
>> IOhannes m zmoelnig schrieb:
>>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>> I think iemmatrix needs some work, since it has a number of  
>>>> aliases,  and aliases currently aren't supported.  I am a little  
>>>> hesitant to
>>>
>>> what is the problem with aliases?
>>> somebody (georg) has created an alias folder some time ago for  
>>> iemmatrix.
>> Yes, at least when I made this alias folder iemmatrix it did work  
>> quite well.
>> I also made aliases for iemlib and some more stuff from iem ... so  
>> I don't see a problem ...
>> (I agree that maybe in future we should avoid aliases)
>
> what is wrong with aliases? why should they be avoided?
> do you prefer [f] or [float]?

They are not consistently implemented, so they can cause confusion.   
Symbols that are selectors and classnames should be consistent  
everywhere "s" does not mean the same thing everywhere while "send"  
and "symbol" do.  [f 123( and [s blah( don't work.  Those are a  
couple examples.

I think they were only added to Max/Pd as typing shortcuts, which is  
very weak argument in favor of them.  I am not saying we should  
remove them, but I think they should be avoided as a matter of  
convention.

What other programming language has aliases?

.hc

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