[PD-dev] pd-extended loadlib request

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Fri Jan 25 23:09:35 CET 2008


On Jan 24, 2008, at 2:31 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> What other programming language has aliases?
>
> Ruby accepts both 'indices' and 'indexes' as selectors in the Array  
> and Hash classes. Ruby has 'alias' as a reserved word.
>

I mean aliases for functions.  I know of no programming language  
besides Pd (and maybe Max) that has multiple names for functions that  
do the exact same thing.

.hc


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