2009/11/16 zmoelnig@iem.at:
Quoting "Hans-Christoph Steiner" hans@at.or.at:
I am in the process of working on my 'framesync' library, and I just had a thought that I am not sure has come up before. Lots of times, we want to use send/receives in reusable code, but with a global namespace, there is the potential for nameclashes. So I propose that for libraries, we make it a 'best practice' to use the same namespace prefix as you would for loading an object.
For example, this 'framesync' library, I need to send the FPS (Frames Per Second) to all the objects, so it needs to be a global send. So just like I could do [framesync/fstabplay~] the internal send/receive would be [send framesync/fps] and [receive framesync/fps].
while you are there, i would propose to use "/foo/bar" rather than "foo/bar".
while this doesn't fully match the [foo/bar] idiom for object-names, it does fit nicely into OSC.
(okay, time-warping self-nullifying emailing at its best - see ending parenthetical for my most up-to-date thinking on this matter. I think I agree with IO after all).
Just a quick comment... when I was writing and pondering the (still very small) Pd Style Guide I decided it wasn't a good idea to use "/" in send/receive namespaces.
The reason being, I didn't see a point in making s/r addresses look like OSC addresses if they /weren't/ always OSC addresses, and that it would be better to be explicit about how OSC fits into the picture in cases where it actually does.
I used "-", like [s framesync-fps] (which matched well with what miller and the majority of Pd users do habitually anyway (albeit with no discernible formality in most cases).
Anyway, it's not meant as an attempt to bikeshed, just wanted to mention it : ).
(Ah, and just as I was about to hit send, I think I finally get the idea of doing this: it's so one could receive incoming OSC messages like [/framesync/fps 5( and then use a dynamic [send] to dispatch them to the right [recieve]s! I was stuck thinking you'd need a bunch of [routeOSC]s everywhere which, in my previous experience, slowed my patches to a crawl.).
Best Luke
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