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

[Roman Haefeli]

On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 17:49 -0400, marius schebella wrote:
> hmmmm...
> hmmmmm...
> will you be the one to ask miller to change his documentation?
> marius.

good point.....

now, i really don't know what to say....

roman



> 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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