[PD] scratching my head about zexy

IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig at iem.at
Wed Nov 5 09:23:02 CET 2008


Roman Haefeli wrote:
> hm.. only now, i see that overriding built-ins seems to be intentional.

yes, this has been calimed to be a feature: 
http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-dev/2008-06/011846.html

i still don't believe it really is.
it might be better to add an explicit way to override builtins (or 
pre-loaded externals).


> when starting pd with loading zexy, i get:
> 
> warning: class 'pack' overwritten\; old one renamed 'pack_aliased'
> warning: class 'unpack' overwritten\; old one renamed 'unpack_aliased'
> 
> 
> and pd's built-in [pack] can be instantiated with [pack_aliased]
> 
> ?????????

the fun starts when yet another library claims the name [pack].


mfgad.sr
IOhannes




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