Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > On Jan 24, 2008, at 2:31 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > >> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >> >>> What other programming language has aliases? >> Ruby accepts both 'indices' and 'indexes' as selectors in the Array >> and Hash classes. Ruby has 'alias' as a reserved word. >> > > I mean aliases for functions. I know of no programming language > besides Pd (and maybe Max) that has multiple names for functions that > do the exact same thing.
In most languages, you can define your own *local* names/aliases: C: typedef double (*function)(double); function foo = sin; Lua: local foo = somepackage.somefunction Haskell: foo = Module.function I think most agree that global aliases don't really add much, but local aliases, ie, per "module" or smaller unit (which in Pd would be per abstraction) are very useful. Claude -- http://claudiusmaximus.goto10.org _______________________________________________ PD-dev mailing list PD-dev@iem.at http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
