[PD-dev] pd-extended loadlib request

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> It's not that uncommon if you think of operator overloading in C++ and 
> many other languages

Operator overloading is nothing special, really. It's just plain 
polymorphism, either compile-time or run-time. What makes it seem special 
is the syntax.

Anyway it's not aliasing, it's the opposite of it: one name for several 
things rather than several names for one thing.

> or things like "from math import radians as rad" in Python.

Yes, that would be an example of aliasing.

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