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

[marius schebella]

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:
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> Yes, that means some education for some users, but that's a big part of 
> the pdpedia mission.
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> That's my take, Marius will now disagree.  :D
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> .hc
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