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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