[PD-dev] sms pd external - design choices

[Claude Heiland-Allen]

zmoelnig at iem.at wrote:
> Quoting Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>:
> 
>> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>>> It would be great to have people start using this string/blob   
>>> functionality, but it needs to be changed so that it'll work   
>>> without patching Pd itself.  IOhannes outlined this idea, and we   
>>> talked about it briefly in the past.
>> How do you get [print] to print a peachy string?
> 
> in the way we (including miller) kind of agreed at LAC2008 the answer  
> is simple: you don't.
> 
> my initial idea of having a "type registry" (which was turned down as  
> it seemed to be too complicated for the "minor" (not so many devs  
> would probably use it anyway) feature of adding more types) would have  
> added a callback for the use in atom_getstring()

I'd be more worried about what to do when arbitrary atom-type-agnostic 
objects keep copies of my atoms around long after my world has 
deallocated the memory pointed to, and what to do when those expired 
atoms come back into my world...

Claude
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