[PD] Abstractions x Externals

[Alexandre Porres]

Nevertheless, i've seen people say and use inheritance to refer about
parent patches sending info to abstractions via arguments

What is the deal there?

Cheers

Em quarta-feira, 16 de fevereiro de 2011, Mathieu
Bouchard<matju at artengine.ca> escreveu:
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Bernardo Barros wrote:
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> That's funny how other languages jargons uses words with different meanings.. :-) In SuperCollider, for instance, "plugins" are the extensions to the UGens used by scsynth, the synthesis engine, written in C++. The "classes" are those writen in the SuperCollider language. In this case they are actually 'classes' in the OOP original jargon, since they have methodes, inheritance etc.
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> How do you explain a C function like class_addmethod, which registers a method under a certain selector, in a class of your choice ?
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> It's in <m_pd.h>, Pd's main header.
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> (There's no actual support for inheritance though. There's no so often a use for it in the context of Pd. My library supports inheritance internally, but uses it seldom.)
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