Exactly. If I could answer those questions I'd code it up right now... cheers Miller
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 01:21:29AM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > Mathieu Bouchard hat gesagt: // Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > > > On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > > > >A further step would be some easy way to read and write the state of > > >objects without having to watch their communication through senders and > > >receivers, but that's the hard part, because it touches philosophical > > >questions like: What actually is a state? ;) > > > > There's nothing funny or joke-like in that. I ask you: what is a state? > > What I think is funny about this question is that often it seems > people would think the answer is obvious, while I agree with you that > it's not obvious at all! > > > I'd say, a state is whatever you may want to save. Is that a good > > definition? > > This would be my basic definition as well. Even this has some direct > consequences: What I want to save is different from what you want to > save. What I want to save also somehow defines what I don't want to > save. So the next questions are: How to tell Pd what should be saved and > what not? Or: Can Pd make educated guesses about what should and > shouldn't be saved? Should Pd guess at all? > > Ciao > -- > Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__ > > _______________________________________________ > PD-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
