On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Chris McCormick wrote:
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 01:00:34PM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
verb/is article/this noun/sentence adjective/easier prep/to verb/read ?
Written english is quite different in application and parsing to
objectboxes in the Puredata patching language. In my opinion the
directory prefix adds to the understanding of what an objectbox is
doing by adding context, whilst in your example above the context is
inherent in the rules of the language and hence clumsy, confusing,
and redundant. I think you are comparing apples and oranges, and the
comparison is not a good argument against directory prefixes in object
boxes.
You are right about my comparison.
You are mostly right about what the prefixes do in pdmtl-abstractions.
Whether each prefix is useful or not for a given object class, depends on
what is one's ability to interpret the class name, but for some things it
can be pretty automated: so far, every object class that has a "2" in the
non-prefix part of its name, either go in category "convert" or category
"musical". Whenever those are in category "musical", they would have been
also candidates for "convert" but "musical" was picked instead. (the
prefix system causes competition between intersecting categories)
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