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Subject: Re: on package naming, should the word 
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In article <3bca98d8.736428@news.demon.co.uk>, John McCabe says...
>
>True, although only for the task and protected object - you can't
>consider the package as an object because it isn't an instance of a
>type.

The way I was taught it, an "object" consists of a data type, together with the
operations on that type. Since a package is one means of encapsulating both
those things into one concept, it can indeed be considered an "object".

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