[PD-dev] naming loaders: pdlua, tclpd, etc.

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Albert Graef wrote:

> In Pd/Q this is done differently; there's only one main script which 
> defines all the Q objects in a patch (which are in fact just Q 
> functions), but this script can be reloaded dynamically through a 
> special "q" receiver. This operation is a bit on the heavy side, but in 
> Q you can also create new functions at runtime, so with a little 
> preparation you can also change the behaviour of objects written in Q by 
> just sending them Pd messages encoding Q functions, for instance.

Sounds a lot like GridFlow and the loading of ~/.gridflow_startup.

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