Advanced Visual Programming

A functional abstraction is a program whose some elements can become variables, via connections to the outside environment. Hence, this program must have inputs or outputs that can be connected to external variable elements. The resulting functional abstraction can then be embedded into other programs to be used as a functional component.

The repetition of a process within a computer program.

See also : Recursion.

An actual object created at runtime, out of a given class. In OM, more specifically, an object created when evaluating a factory box. An instance can be saved as a global variable.

⤷ SHIFT click on an outlet – especially the first outlet representing the self, the whole object – of a factory box to materialize an instance.

An instance of OM object that has been saved in order to be used in other programs. Global variables are visible from the Library window and stored as .omi files in the Globals folder of the workspace.