[PD] libraries in Pd-extended 0.43

Roman Haefeli reduzent at gmail.com
Tue Dec 14 14:15:56 CET 2010


On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 09:12 +0100, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> On 2010-12-14 05:58, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> > Pd doesn't really have classes like OOP (i.e. no inheritance), so I
> 
> as a matter of fact Pd implements a simple OOP system in C (including
> rudimentary inheritance).
> 
> > think it can be confusing to use that term.  
> 
> so i think that we should use the term
> 
> > People have been saying
> > objects for a long time with Pd and Max.
> > 
> 
> which doesn't make it any better.
> people have been saying "objects" for a long time in OOP, and you could
> use this very definition for Pd/Max like "objects" as well: it's the
> little rectangle things in your Pd-patch.
> 
> iirc, this has all been discussed to the end, and since then the term
> "objectclass" has been pretty much established for what matju refers to
> as "class" right now.

Yeah, let's stick with 'object class' when describing the functionality
and let's call instances of an object class 'objects'. 

my 2¢.

Roman




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