On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Alexandre Torres Porres <porres@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey buddy, I'm open... but I need more than things like:

- Got a problem with externals? Do not use the externals then;
- Yeah, you do have a problem and I don't have a solution, but other than that, the thing you are complaining about is nice.
- I, personally, don't mind the issue, and I think that some workarounds are worth it
- You might not agree it is nice now, and I'm not really trying to prove any point, but maybe if you give it 10 years you might change your mind

I still do not see any advantage in object overwritting, and I see how it is causing name clashes.


I propose that the following two rules for naming Pd externeals will solve all your problems:
1 The name MUST begin with a lowercase alphabetical ASCII character (a-z). Subsequent characters may be lowercase ASCII, numbers (0-9) or underscore (_). DSP objects MUST have a trailing tilde (~) character.
2. The name MUST be unique among Pd externals.

Martin