[PD] "object" or "class" in pdpedia

marius schebella marius.schebella at gmail.com
Wed Sep 12 23:49:16 CEST 2007


hmmmm...
hmmmmm...
will you be the one to ask miller to change his documentation?
marius.

Roman Haefeli wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 17:22 -0400, marius schebella wrote:
>> what you say make sense, it is just not true for Pd. in object oriented 
>> programming (and maybe other programming too) the instantiation of a 
>> "class" is called object. but referring to the miller's pd documentation 
>> (html) there are no classes, and he calls classes "objects".
>> '"reference" patches, one for each kind of object in Pd'.
>> so even if there is the technical differentiation between that not 
>> instantiated thing, usually called "class" and the instance of it, 
>> called "object", that naming convention is not true for Pd.
>> both, the "class" and the instance are known as "object".
>> marius.
> 
> i don't know what to say, you are so right..... :-) 
> 
> it's true that - regarding pd - i didn't find the term class anywhere.
> nevertheless,  i personally wouldn't be against the introduction of the
> term 'class' at all, since it describes what it is anyway. no matter
> what convention is currently used, when we are talking about 'dac~' we
> are talking about the class 'dac~', even if the convention says, that we
> should call it 'object'. i vote for turning the facts into conventions
> rather than sticking with conventions, which are wrong.
> 
> although i absolutely see your point:
> one vote -> class (or objectclass)
> 
> roman
> 
> 
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