[Pipet Devel] Thoughts on Network/Composite Inputs and Outputs

[Jarl van Katwijk]

>     As I mentioned I have been munging together the type (ie. VALUE)
> with a sort of unique identifier (ie. Constant1) to get something
> like 'Constant1--VALUE' for a name. This works okay now, but I guess I
> just worry how easy it will be to maintain. This is also not very
> helpful to a user, since right now they only see 'Constant' as the
> name of the node, and so can't tell which Constant is Constant1 and
> which is Constant2.
>     Overflow gets around all of this by just making the user pick a
> name to identify the connector which is being mapped to the parent, so
> this is another choice to make things easier. This is kind of a pain,
> but I don't know which way is better. What do people think?
>

Maybe base the naming on the manes of the nodes the link connects? So
when node_A and node_B are connected, name the link by default
Constant_nodeA_nodeB.

bye,
jarl