Once again, I(we've discussed this before) it seems that there is an urgent name/concept-convention need.
Just brainstorming, but a nice exercise would be: concept meaning dev user some thoughts abstraction ? ? ? (seems the most easy one) class ? ? ? (should be a class definition?) object ? ? ? (corresponds to a visual object in the gui? no matter if it is external or abstraction?) external ? ? ? (seems easy too) best regards, Pedro On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Mathieu Bouchard <ma...@artengine.ca>wrote: > 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. :) > > _______________________________________________________________________ > | Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: +1.514.383.3801 ---- Villeray, Montréal, QC > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > -- Pedro Lopes (MSc) contact: pedro.lo...@ist.utl.pt website: http://web.ist.utl.pt/Pedro.Lopes / http://pedrolopesresearch.wordpress.com/ | http://twitter.com/plopesresearch
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