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. ;)
Ciao
Frank Barknecht