On 12/09/2007, at 22.41, Roman Haefeli wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 22:13 +0200, Steffen wrote: >> On 12/09/2007, at 21.47, Roman Haefeli wrote: >> >>> at least in my opinion the differentiation between a [dac~] and >>> the 'dac~' in general is quite important. >> >> I would love some insight on that. If you or anyone would care to >> elaborate? > > sorry, the [dac~] vs. 'dac~ in general' wasn't a good example at all. > > actually it is pretty simple. what i meant here was the distinction > between the class 'dac~' and the object 'dac~'. the object 'dac~' > is an > intantiation of the class 'dac~', whereas the class 'dac~' is what you > would describe in pdpedia. > > the term 'class' somehow covers all capabilities, that 'dac~' does > provide you. you can decide to make use of these capabilities by > creating an object [dac~ 2 4], which is another object than [dac~ 1 3] > (or even another object than another [dac~ 2 4]). > > actually, you never see a class, you just know, that it exists, but > you > probably see many [objects] of this class.
Wauw. I don't know how this explanation would work on a complete newbee, but to me it was both very concise and pedagogical. Thanks. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
