[PD] symbolatom: why does it not allow to type spaces?

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> It's nice to add those features, but by adding them to the pd-vanilla 
> objects, that means patches written in desiredata are not compatible with 
> pd-vanilla.

No, pd-vanilla loads them fine, the patches are compatible. It's just 
about bugs that you don't consider to be bugs. A bug is a bug is a bug, 
and I consider the compatibility issue with bugs to be moot, because the 
bug is the fault of the software that has the bug in it, it's not the 
fault of the rest of the planet.

It's Pd's fault for both looking like it supports spaces in symbols using 
backslashes and then not supporting them properly. I don't care about your 
sustained bias in favour of Miller's bugs as if they were features to be 
supported.

> It seems a better solution would be to add new desiredata objects, then keep 
> the iemguis compatible.

It makes patches even less compatible because then *any* patches using the 
new objects are not compatible at all, and people have to choose between 
old vs new objects. Aren't you tired of choosing between floatatom and 
[nbx] ? why shouldn't everybody else be tired of it already? You want more 
of that crap? You want 10 times more of that crap, for all iemguis?

It's not the first time you suggest things like that. I will not provide 
new object classes when I can extend existing ones in "logical" ways. I 
understand what is the Liskov substitution principle and I apply it to the 
evolution of classes across versions. Either you don't understand it or 
you spit on it, and either way, I can't approve you.

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