On Dec 14, 2010, at 3:12 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

On 2010-12-14 05:58, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

Pd doesn't really have classes like OOP (i.e. no inheritance), so I

as a matter of fact Pd implements a simple OOP system in C (including
rudimentary inheritance).

think it can be confusing to use that term.

so i think that we should use the term

People have been saying
objects for a long time with Pd and Max.


which doesn't make it any better.
people have been saying "objects" for a long time in OOP, and you could
use this very definition for Pd/Max like "objects" as well: it's the
little rectangle things in your Pd-patch.

iirc, this has all been discussed to the end, and since then the term
"objectclass" has been pretty much established for what matju refers to
as "class" right now.



"objectclass" works for me, but I don't think "class" alone makes sense for Pd. Pd could be implemented in Java or BASIC in SmallTalk, and neither would not be an object-oriented programming language. ;) But yes, there are some similarities between Pd and OO.

.hc


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