On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 05:09:35PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > On Jan 24, 2008, at 2:31 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > > >On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > > >>What other programming language has aliases? > > > >Ruby accepts both 'indices' and 'indexes' as selectors in the Array > >and Hash classes. Ruby has 'alias' as a reserved word. > > > > I mean aliases for functions. I know of no programming language > besides Pd (and maybe Max) that has multiple names for functions that > do the exact same thing. >
Firstly, an index lookup is a function. Secondly, PHP has function aliases as described in my other post. (Since when is [t a a a] an alias of a function anyway? It's two different types of alias - an objectclass and a type. I provided examples of both in my other post). Best, Chris. ------------------- http://mccormick.cx _______________________________________________ PD-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
