On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
A false dichotomy is made between abstractions and externals.
Such a false dichotomy is also used on the front page of
http://puredata.info/ :
« It is easy to extend Pd by writing object classes ("externals") or
patches ("abstractions"). »
I say that even though at the implementation level, abstractions aren't
classes, for the user, it works like a class.
Also there are many externals that don't include abstractions but are
nonetheless compatible with Pd vanilla.
What part of the text are you referring to, in particular ?
BTW, http://en.flossmanuals.net/PureData/Abstractions talks about
"external patches", but given how "external" is being overwhelmingly used
with a totally different meaning in Pd. (are newbies supposed to have to
guess ?)
"word or symbol" creates a false dichotomy.
what about the occurrence of "selector-word" in the Messages page ?
Also: it isn't made clear what is special about list messages as opposed
to, say, blueberry messages, which I define as starting with the word
blueberry followed by zero or more atoms*.
mmm, blueberries. :)
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