On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 17:49 -0400, marius schebella wrote: > hmmmm... > hmmmmm... > will you be the one to ask miller to change his documentation? > marius.
good point..... now, i really don't know what to say.... roman > Roman Haefeli wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 17:22 -0400, marius schebella wrote: > >> what you say make sense, it is just not true for Pd. in object oriented > >> programming (and maybe other programming too) the instantiation of a > >> "class" is called object. but referring to the miller's pd documentation > >> (html) there are no classes, and he calls classes "objects". > >> '"reference" patches, one for each kind of object in Pd'. > >> so even if there is the technical differentiation between that not > >> instantiated thing, usually called "class" and the instance of it, > >> called "object", that naming convention is not true for Pd. > >> both, the "class" and the instance are known as "object". > >> marius. > > > > i don't know what to say, you are so right..... :-) > > > > it's true that - regarding pd - i didn't find the term class anywhere. > > nevertheless, i personally wouldn't be against the introduction of the > > term 'class' at all, since it describes what it is anyway. no matter > > what convention is currently used, when we are talking about 'dac~' we > > are talking about the class 'dac~', even if the convention says, that we > > should call it 'object'. i vote for turning the facts into conventions > > rather than sticking with conventions, which are wrong. > > > > although i absolutely see your point: > > one vote -> class (or objectclass) > > > > roman > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > > Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list ___________________________________________________________ Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de
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