On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, marius schebella wrote:
what you say make sense, it is just not true for Pd. in object oriented programming (and maybe other programming too) the instantiation of a "class" is called object. but referring to the miller's pd documentation (html) there are no classes, and he calls classes "objects".
It's a synecdoche. The part (an object) is the sign, but the signified is the whole (the class). Thus "the [+] object" means "a [+] object" or rather "any [+] object".
'"reference" patches, one for each kind of object in Pd'. so even if there is the technical differentiation between that not instantiated thing, usually called "class" and the instance of it, called "object", that naming convention is not true for Pd. both, the "class" and the instance are known as "object".
Or sometimes "class" is known as "kind of object", as you have yourself quoted.
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