On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
i think that we are basically all agree on what we mean... however, matju tries to be exact when it comes to definitions. calling messages with an selector that is not defined as a standard a "undefined set" is not correct in a mathematical sense
It's not just making it mathematical. Think of how "undefined" relates to "set". My guess, after a while of reading Hans on "undefined sets", is that it's "undefined" in the sense of "it has a selector that is not one of the five magic selectors of pd", and that doesn't even mean those that are not defined internally in pd, because that would exclude "set", "reset", and a few dozen others. That's a quite peculiar use of the word "undefined", and not any of my first 242 guesses of what "undefined" might mean in Pd.
i think that we should get terms right if we want to define a consistent programming language.
and a consistent documentation...
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