[PD] nosferatu namespaces

[Krzysztof Czaja]

hi Mathieu,

Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Krzysztof Czaja wrote:

what I wrote was a rough sketch, written only to show that adding
per-canvas declarations is not as hard as one might have thought.

> Why should new C-based components still use linked lists instead of some 
> other data structure?

for simplicity

>>. add new member "t_libentry *gl_liblist" to struct _glist;
>>. inherit parent's library list when creating child canvases;
> 
> 
> How do you ever get to deallocate t_libentry ?
> 
> (also, if there is no reference-counter then you can't share portions of
> the liblist among several patchers and so there's no point in making it a
> linked list either. you have to copy the liblist every time)

why not to do it by copying entries?  Btw, inheritance should
apply only to subpatches, not abstractions.

> The order of objects in a glist is important, as this is what is used to 
> generate "#X connect" lines. Do you really mean to save [using] decls 
> first?

you are right, although this might be fixed easily by increasing
a value returned by canvas_getindex(x, y) with a count of
declaration objects that are y's successors in x.  Another way
might be to keep a glist properly sorted in the first place
(sorting all newly created objects into their proper places).

Krzysztof