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

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, marius schebella wrote:

> what you say make sense, it is just not true for Pd. in object oriented
> programming (and maybe other programming too) the instantiation of a
> "class" is called object. but referring to the miller's pd documentation
> (html) there are no classes, and he calls classes "objects".

It's a synecdoche. The part (an object) is the sign, but the signified is 
the whole (the class). Thus "the [+] object" means "a [+] object" or 
rather "any [+] object".

> '"reference" patches, one for each kind of object in Pd'.
> so even if there is the technical differentiation between that not
> instantiated thing, usually called "class" and the instance of it,
> called "object", that naming convention is not true for Pd.
> both, the "class" and the instance are known as "object".

Or sometimes "class" is known as "kind of object", as you have yourself 
quoted.

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