Class is what pd calls objects internally.
For example here is the setup routine for the unpackOSC object:
void unpackOSC_setup(void)
{
unpackOSC_class = class_new(gensym("unpackOSC"),
(t_newmethod)unpackOSC_new, (t_method)unpackOSC_free,
sizeof(t_unpackOSC), 0, 0);
class_addlist(unpackOSC_class, (t_method)unpackOSC_list);
}
I think of the ideal thing as a 'class' and its instances in a patch as
'objects'. The object receives 'messages' that the class handles using
'methods'.
Martin
> marius schebella wrote:
> as hans already knew, I disagree. I have not heard the term class
> before. I think the term class is really not in use by pd users.
> what you (hans) call a class is called an object by everybody else...
> [class] <-- that is not a class, it is an object.
> [message( <-- and that is a message.
> when we are talking about "dac~", then we are talking about the object
> dac~, even if it is not the technically correct term (I learned now: it
> is a class, until you make an instance of the class, that is called
> object) but that is confusing. please use object!
>
> marius.
>
> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> >
> > Marius and I are sitting here arguing over whether we should use the
> > term "class" or "object" in the pdpedia as the standard term for
> > differentiation, e.g. bang (class) vs. bang (selector).
> >
> > I think the current usage of the term "object" in Pd has two meanings:
> > an instance of a class, and the class itself. I think we should
> > distinguish between these two in the pd wiki, and the word "class" is
> > quite well established for that.
> >
> > Yes, that means some education for some users, but that's a big part of
> > the pdpedia mission.
> >
> > That's my take, Marius will now disagree. :D
> >
> > .hc
> >
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> >
> > Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to
> > realize his wishes. Now that he can realize them, he must either change
> > them, or perish. -William Carlos Williams
> >
> >
> >
>
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