On 2010-12-14 05:58, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> Pd doesn't really have classes like OOP (i.e. no inheritance), so I

as a matter of fact Pd implements a simple OOP system in C (including
rudimentary inheritance).

> think it can be confusing to use that term.  

so i think that we should use the term

> People have been saying
> objects for a long time with Pd and Max.
> 

which doesn't make it any better.
people have been saying "objects" for a long time in OOP, and you could
use this very definition for Pd/Max like "objects" as well: it's the
little rectangle things in your Pd-patch.

iirc, this has all been discussed to the end, and since then the term
"objectclass" has been pretty much established for what matju refers to
as "class" right now.

fgmasdr
IOhannes

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