On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Javier Garcia wrote:
thanks, Enrique now works. The word "instantiate" (Thomas Ouellet wrote it) was the key. It was strange for me..
i haven't seen how Thomas uses the word, but btw, one instantiates a class, by creating an object. The object is "templated" according to the class. The behaviour is defined by a class. Even if internally all abstractions work from the same basic behaviour in pd, the fact that we call patching a kind of programming validates the idea that each abstraction file is a class.
An interface (aka protocol) is the set of what objects of a certain class can accept as arguments and messages (or signals), together with the set of what messages (or signals or I/O) the user can expect, and when. The more it works like other object classes, the less you may need to document it (depending on how the documentation is structured). A help file documents the interface of a class and not the class itself.
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