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

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Thu Sep 13 18:38:38 CEST 2007


On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> apart from that, i do not see a necessity to use either of these terms. 
> why can't we just use "/bang" for the class (or however you want to call 
> it).

Because if classes have that kind of precedence, and you have a page on a 
certain concept which happens later to have a class by the same name, you 
don't want to have to move that content to another page just so that the 
class gets the main entry.

> if someone sees the urge for having selectors in the wiki (which i 
> don't, but that is just me),

How do you want to document things across classes? Because always 
documenting things class-by-class removes some of the big picture. Perhaps 
they should be documented in a page called "/object" which would contain 
everything common to all t_objects, for example. Most classes don't define 
a method for every one of the built-in selectors, but some aspects of 
those methods/selectors are still defined at that level rather than in the 
class that defines the method.

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