[OSC_dev] Application Profiles

[Andy W. Schmeder]

On Dec 21, 2008, at 2:38 AM, Nicholas J Humfrey wrote:

>> I am profoundly sorry, but #reply is not a valid OSC name
>
> Perhaps that was a deliberate decision to use a reserved character to
> make it part of the protocol layer, rather than an application.


That is correct, though I now think it was a mistake.  It is better to  
not disturb the protocol for the purpose of adding these things.  '#'  
needs to stay reserved for the moment.

I'm not sure when it was added to liblo, but I didn't have anything to  
do with that... :)

FWIW, Open Sound World (http://osw.sourceforge.net) implements most of  
what is described in that paper.  We were able to build a reflection  
API on top of it so that runtime patching operations and object state  
taking place in the OSW server are mirrored in an object structure in  
a remote python interpreter.


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Andy W. Schmeder
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