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 2ยข.
Roman