[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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 Frank Barknecht                 _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__




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