[PD] Abstraction [define]
Frank Barknecht
fbar at footils.org
Sun Dec 17 01:21:29 CET 2006
Hallo,
Mathieu Bouchard hat gesagt: // Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>
> >A further step would be some easy way to read and write the state of
> >objects without having to watch their communication through senders and
> >receivers, but that's the hard part, because it touches philosophical
> >questions like: What actually is a state? ;)
>
> There's nothing funny or joke-like in that. I ask you: what is a state?
What I think is funny about this question is that often it seems
people would think the answer is obvious, while I agree with you that
it's not obvious at all!
> I'd say, a state is whatever you may want to save. Is that a good
> definition?
This would be my basic definition as well. Even this has some direct
consequences: What I want to save is different from what you want to
save. What I want to save also somehow defines what I don't want to
save. So the next questions are: How to tell Pd what should be saved and
what not? Or: Can Pd make educated guesses about what should and
shouldn't be saved? Should Pd guess at all?
Ciao
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