[PD-dev] cyclone and uppercase

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Mar 11, 2009, at 4:23 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> Frank Barknecht wrote:
>>>
>>> Any comments or objections?
>> Objection, judge! :)
>> Some of the uppercase objects in Cyclone are there so the don't  
>> clash with
>> builtins. Line~ is different from line~.
>
> and has been lengthily discussed on this list: aliasing will  
> eventually override already existing classes (including internals).  
> so you get cyclone's [Line~] when you really want [line~].

Oops, I forgot to add in my last email, I think that the 0.42  
overriding causes lots of problems, and I don't see much benefit, I  
think there was pretty broad agreement on that.  We should instead  
finalize the design of a library format and means for supporting load  
order that is saved with the patch.  Then we'll solve all of these  
problems.  I think my opinion on how to do this is well known, but I'd  
like to hear other ideas that take into account the whole problem, and  
move beyond "this is what we have, deal with it".

.hc

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