[PD] Getting the best out of the rewrite (was: Re: pow~, etc. in Pd-extended 0.42.5)

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 14, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:

>> In Pd-extended 0.41.4 and newer, and with libdirs, the help patches
>> should be found when using namespace prefixes.  They are in all the
>> tests I've done.
>>
>> As for loading by default, I personally think no libraries should be
>> loaded by default.  We just need to figure out a transition plan.
>>
>> .hc
>
> Could it be that mine is having issues because I've got Gem library  
> loaded
> at startup?

No, that works for me.  Which help patch isn't working?

> Also, has the problem with [>~ ] and similar objects using special
> characters been fixed in 0.42.5 (IIRC 0.41.4 had issues with these  
> so you
> had to invoke those objects using hex ascii values).


That's an issue with hexloader.  If you want to use those names, you  
need to load hexloader first.  I think you could do it like [import  
hexloader]

.hc




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