Re: [PD] declare [loooooooooooong]

2008-07-31 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: The Lua-style environment in Pd is basically just the global path and the global helppath. Maybe. But Lua also does have a path variable (package.path) which is very similar to Pd's -path as it's used to specify

Re: [PD] declare [loooooooooooong]

2008-07-31 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: It seems to me that using the canvas-local and global paths for everything that opens a file isn't really a good idea. You never know where a file could come from. But that is entrenched, so it is not going anywhere. but isn't this right now? when a

Re: [PD] declare [loooooooooooong]

2008-07-31 Thread Damian Stewart
IOhannes m zmoelnig schreef: yes, i think that is what frank was trying to say: due to the missing definitions we keep mixing up searchpaths and namespaces - they are different things (only Pd happens to make them related; right, java does so too, but who uses java?) i use java sometimes,

Re: [PD] declare [loooooooooooong]

2008-07-31 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Damian Stewart hat gesagt: // Damian Stewart wrote: IOhannes m zmoelnig schreef: well, personally i feel more inclined to follow a discussion (and participate in it) on push media rather than pull media. ditto ditto++, but after or at certain points during the discussion of

Re: [PD] declare [loooooooooooong]

2008-07-30 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: There is consensus if we consider how other programming languages have done it. From what I have seen in Python, Java, and C (and probably many others) there are two options: global and local-to-the- file.

Re: [PD] declare [loooooooooooong]

2008-07-30 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Jul 30, 2008, at 3:35 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: There is consensus if we consider how other programming languages have done it. From what I have seen in Python, Java, and C (and probably many others) there are