[PD] declare not posting library loading message while object creation does?

Peter P. peterparker at fastmail.com
Mon Oct 7 13:49:20 CEST 2019


* IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> [2019-10-07 13:47]:
> On 10/7/19 1:42 PM, Peter P. wrote:
> > Dear list,
> > 
> > I am a big fan of the [declare] object for loading libraries but its
> > user interaction keeps puzzling me.
> > 
> > Creation of [declare -lib hid] does neither post a success or failure
> > message to the console, but the creation of a [hid] object itself prints
> > the usual
> > 	[hid] 0.7, written by Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org>
> >  	 compiled on Aug  8 2013 at 07:27:37
> > 
> > Seems like the above declare object has no function...
> 
> yes.
> this is a feature of the hid library.
> 
> it prints a boilerplate at object instantiation time (but only for the
> first object instance), rather than at library load time.

Amazing feature!
Thank you!





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