On 9/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">robin.escalation</b> <<a href="mailto:robin.escalation@acm.org">robin.escalation@acm.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> One factual note; functions have their own name-space as well.<br><br>OK. I am already missing the package / module concept however.</blockquote><div><br>I'm not sure what those are or why we need them, could you kindly explain?
<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> One opinion; I completely fail to see what's wrong with<br>> "miniaudicle" as a name.
<br><br>Well, there's no such thing as an "audicle" so tacking on the prefix<br>"mini" makes it less than informative as to what it might actually<br>be. </blockquote><div><br>At this stage I suspect I need to point something out to you;
<br><a href="http://audicle.cs.princeton.edu/">http://audicle.cs.princeton.edu/</a><br><br>There in fact is a "Audicle" but it can be quite heavy on the CPU and GPU, the MiniAudicle is a smaller version with the most important elements yet a far smaller footprint resource-wise. This makes a lot of sense, IMHO.
<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">That said I also hate the name "ChucK", especially with that<br>spelling, but thought it impolite to mention that as well. ;-)
<br><br>One has to admit that Supercollider is a very cool name!</blockquote><div><br>SuperCollider has a very cool name, I admit. Future writers might engage in long articles interperting the act of chucking something in comparision to the effect of it colliding against something else *ducks*.
<br><br>If all else fails you can re-name the executable.<br> <br><br>;¬)</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>Yes, I saw some code for that somewhere. Though it's nice to have a
<br>workaround, it does make what should be trivial into something less<br>than trivial.</blockquote><div><br>Yes, that's true. We definately need garbage collection but in practice I don't think too many people are stuck now without it because in most cases it's not a issue at all.
<br><br>If you are writing code for a instalation it could become a very real matter but at that point whatever you write will need to be double-checked so many times that working around garbage will mostly be a relatively minor adition to this work-load.
<br></div><br><br>Kas.</div>