[PD] Abstraction [define]

[Miller Puckette]

Exactly.  If I could answer those questions I'd code it up right now...

cheers
Miller

On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 01:21:29AM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> 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
> -- 
>  Frank Barknecht                 _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__
> 
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