[PD-dev] pd-extended loadlib request

[Chris McCormick]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 05:09:35PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Firstly, an index lookup is a function. Secondly, PHP has function aliases
as described in my other post. (Since when is [t a a a] an alias of a
function anyway? It's two different types of alias - an objectclass and
a type. I provided examples of both in my other post).

Best,

Chris.

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