On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 18:42 -0300, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
howdy, I know I kinda asked about this before on the list, but now I'm really committed to understanding and building objects with "weird character" names, like [==~].
Speaking as user, please don't. Don't find out about it, don't create such externals, don't distribute them. The world was fine before Pd-extended split up perfectly working libraries into single-object-per-file libraries that required stuff like hexloader exactly because of the very issue you seem to show interest in. Although it technically worked, hexloader was not loaded per default and this meant that some objects of a library simply worked, while others didn't until hexloader got loaded and it confused the hell out of people.
Now that we have a chance to get rid of all hexloader related kludges, now you come and bring it up again. If you're simply interested in knowing how things work technically, fine. If you plan to work on such externals, puulleeaaazzzzzeee reconsider for the sake of the sanity of this community.
Thanks, Roman