[PD] [PD-announce] Pd-0.40.3-extended-rc2 released

[Ico Doornekamp]

* On 2008-07-22 marius schebella <marius.schebella at gmail.com> wrote  :

> Frank Barknecht wrote:
> > Hallo,
> > Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> > 
> >> The grand plan is to have no libraries loaded by default.  Then the  
> >> library configuration would be completely embedded in the patch, like  
> >> python does with import.
> > 
> > 
> > $ python
> > Python 2.4.4c0 (#2, Jul 30 2006, 15:43:58) 
> > [GCC 4.1.2 20060715 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-9)] on linux2
> > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>>> sin(0.5)
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> > NameError: name 'sin' is not defined
> >>>> math.sin(0.5)
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> > NameError: name 'math' is not defined
> >>>> import math
> >>>> math.sin(0.5)
> > 0.47942553860420301
> > 
> > Ciao
> 
> is this a good idea? pd comes with a set of tools, I don't see a reason 
> why I should import [bang] before I can use it. I (don't) want to be 
> treated like a child in a sandpit here:
> "mummy, can I have the shovel?"
> "say please"
> "please can I have the shovel?"
> "you know, my darling, this shovel is from toys "r" us... can you say, 
> mummy please can I have the shovel from toys "r" us?"
> "please can I have the shovel from toys "r" us?"
> "cutie! say thank you"
> "thank you"
> "kiss mummy!"
> kiss...
> marius.

Or the other version:

"mummy, can I have the shovel"
"which shovel, dear, the red one or the blue one"
"the blue one"
"here you are dear"

Next time, you'll learn to ask for one of the specific shovels right
away: red/shovel or blue/shovel.

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