[PD] "object" or "class" in pdpedia

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Wed Sep 12 20:57:27 CEST 2007


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


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