[PD] objects with no alphanumerical names, how to build them?

[Jonathan Wilkes]

I'd like to make a Request for Peer Pressure:
Externals should only use alphanumeric characters and the underscore character.
Exceptions are: classes that should have long ago shipped with Vanilla, classes to gain compatibility with Max/MSP, 
domain-specific operators for a monolithic external library (i.e., one where you're probably going to load the entire 
library rather than individual classes from it), and legacy pd-extended bunk.
So learning about hexloader is good, maintaining zexy/cyclone is good, documenting problem characters on 
various OSes is good, shipping an external with a creator ":)" is bad.
-Jonathan


 

    On Tuesday, April 5, 2016 2:37 PM, Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com> wrote:
 

 2016-04-05 12:26 GMT-03:00 Roman Haefeli <reduzent at gmail.com>:

On Windows, for instance, you can't have ? < > | : * \ / " in filenames.

I just confirmed you can't have those characters in a .dll file
So, besides these characters in Windows, what are other forbiden ones in other operational systems we run pd on?
I have Mac Os and it seems only colon (:) is prohibited (as in windows), or dot (.) at the beginning of a file.
How about Linux?
cheers
_______________________________________________
Pd-list at lists.iem.at mailing list
UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list


  
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/attachments/20160405/b9e45636/attachment-0001.html>