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[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Sat, 19 Jun 2010, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> I am saying that each class should have a function called setup().  That's 
> how it works in Max/MSP.

I know what you're saying. And I think that whatever it is in Max/MSP is 
informative, but it doesn't have to be like that. I don't especially care 
what they actually do. Sometimes it's a good inspiration, but you've got 
to have a better reason than "it's like that in Max/MSP". I wouldn't 
actually even list it in a list of reasons for doing something, except 
when making a compatibility library.

And then, as I just explained, there are many things that you just can't 
achieve by considering that the only thing one would ever do is install a 
new class.

Some other examples are : the code that adds an inlet to the builtin 
comment class. the code that adds extra menu items in the Help menu. 
Iemguts modifying the savefn and propertiesfn of the canvas class. etc.

> I think that having a single function called setup() load multiple 
> classes is not a good idea.

Classes in other programming languages are rarely bundled as separate 
files. In C and C++, it's usually one big .so file for a large collection 
of classes. Even in Java, the paradise of class-files, it didn't take long 
before people begged that the class-files be joined together into a few 
big files, and that's how the JAR format was born.

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