[PD-dev] pd-extended loadlib request

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, 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.

Ruby has no "functions", and neither does pd. What are you talking about?

selectors/methods is as close to functions you can get in Ruby. It's 
certainly closer to the concept of function, than pd's concept of object 
is.

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