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

[Steffen]

On 12/09/2007, at 22.41, Roman Haefeli wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 22:13 +0200, Steffen wrote:
>> On 12/09/2007, at 21.47, Roman Haefeli wrote:
>>
>>> at least in my opinion the differentiation between a [dac~] and
>>> the 'dac~' in general is quite important.
>>
>> I would love some insight on that. If you or anyone would care to
>> elaborate?
>
> sorry, the [dac~] vs. 'dac~ in general' wasn't a good example at all.
>
> actually it is pretty simple. what i meant here was the distinction
> between the class 'dac~' and the object 'dac~'. the object 'dac~'  
> is an
> intantiation of the class 'dac~', whereas the class 'dac~' is what you
> would describe in pdpedia.
>
> the term 'class' somehow covers all capabilities, that 'dac~' does
> provide you. you can decide to make use of these capabilities by
> creating an object [dac~ 2 4], which is another object than [dac~ 1 3]
> (or even another object than another [dac~ 2 4]).
>
> actually, you never see a class, you just know, that it exists, but  
> you
> probably see many [objects] of this class.

Wauw. I don't know how this explanation would work on a complete  
newbee, but to me it was both very concise and pedagogical. Thanks.