[PD] libraries in Pd-extended 0.43

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 14, 2010, at 3:12 AM, 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.



"objectclass" works for me, but I don't think "class" alone makes  
sense for Pd.  Pd could be implemented in Java or BASIC in SmallTalk,  
and neither would not be an object-oriented programming language. ;)   
But yes, there are some similarities between Pd and OO.

.hc


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