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