[PD] unique names for externals
Frank Barknecht
barknech at ph-cip.uni-koeln.de
Sat Jul 28 20:12:14 CEST 2001
Miller Puckette hat gesagt: // Miller Puckette wrote:
> This is going to be a never-ending problem...! suppose someone uses
> lib 1 and lib 2, and has a patch using "wack" from lib 2, and then the
> lib 1 author introduces a "wack" object. The only way I can think of to
> protect against this problem is to somehow declare to Pd that, in the
> context of a given patch, "wack" should be taken from lib 2. Hmm, then
> someone merges lib2 and lib 3, so the declaration then has to change...
> I have no idea how to deal with this in general..
Maybe one could introduce some kind of namespace like in C++. This could be
an object like [namespace gem], that changes the namespace of the surrounding
patch.
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