Hallo, Mathieu Bouchard hat gesagt: // Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > >A further step would be some easy way to read and write the state of > >objects without having to watch their communication through senders and > >receivers, but that's the hard part, because it touches philosophical > >questions like: What actually is a state? ;) > > There's nothing funny or joke-like in that. I ask you: what is a state?
What I think is funny about this question is that often it seems people would think the answer is obvious, while I agree with you that it's not obvious at all! > I'd say, a state is whatever you may want to save. Is that a good > definition? This would be my basic definition as well. Even this has some direct consequences: What I want to save is different from what you want to save. What I want to save also somehow defines what I don't want to save. So the next questions are: How to tell Pd what should be saved and what not? Or: Can Pd make educated guesses about what should and shouldn't be saved? Should Pd guess at all? Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
