[PD] nosferatu namespaces

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 23, 2005, at 4:06 PM, Krzysztof Czaja wrote:

> hi all,
>
> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> ...
>>> - this should be local to each abstraction (otherwise reausability  
>>> of  abstractions is not guaranteed - there could be nameclashes ...)
>> Yes, for sure.  But that'll be a much bigger project.  For now,  
>> [using]
>
> should not be too hard.  The main points could be:
>
> . add new member "t_symbol *me_libname" to struct _methodentry;
>
> . fill that member with an extern name, when calling
>   class_addmethod() in class_new();
>
> . define struct _libentry {t_symbol *le_name; t_libentry *le_next};
>
> . add new member "t_libentry *gl_liblist" to struct _glist;
>
> . duplicate (for speed) the main loop in pd_typedmess() for the
>   special case of pd_objectmaker target, for which the test for
>   a method name would be extended with current glist's library
>   list traversal; other targets ignore the me_libname member;
>
> . in canvas_saveto() run the gobj_save() loop in two passes: first
>   for objects of well-known classes (declarations), like "using",
>   second for the rest;
>
> . inherit parent's library list when creating child canvases;
>
> . define the "using" class itself (or rather, "declare libs", if
>   possible); it would just append its args to the current glist's
>   gl_liblist, but before the inherited part.
>
> Krzysztof
>

Great, want to code it?!  ;)

.hc


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