On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Pedro Lopes wrote:
For me external is different from abstraction.For what I understand there's a need for a joint concept, one that says "this visual object box is <<something>>".
Is that what you call class Mathieu?
Classes are definitions of what each box means in your patches : if I have three [+] boxes, I have three objects, but a single "+" class involved.
There are two useful definitions of the word "class" in Pd : usually, it's best to think of each abstraction file as being a class of its own, because that's (by analogy) nearly the same idea of class that is being used in other programming languages.
However, internally, the abstraction-loader doesn't give each abstraction its own t_class structure. (almost no pd user needs to take the latter into account, even among those who write externals ; but I had to.)
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