On Apr 17, 2008, at 2:31 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Apr 16, 2008, at 2:58 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
In the end we may be back at square one: a "flatspace" with the selected best of the (un)pack objectclasses in a single
directory. No problems with path settings, all is fine again.Or what am I missing? ;)
The flatspace model breaks down when you start adding libraries to
Pd- extended. Then you can have nameclashes again. Say someone writes their own library with an [urn], then what happens? At best, confusion ensues.I should have written "best of the (un)pack objectclasses in a single *namespace*", not a directory. But that's how pd-extended is setup and used in practice ATM.
If we look at other programming languages, we can see that namespaces are a very common solution to this problem (C++, Tcl, python, Java, Smalltalk, etc). I see no reason why it wouldn't work for Pd as
well.Me neither. I just see a discrepancy between theory and real life
and am searching for the reason. ;)
This is the reason AFAIK: The namespace stuff isn't fully
implemented, plus people are used to working in a single namespace,
so first things need to be fixed, then we need to work out a
transistion plan.
.hc
Ciao
Frank Barknecht
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