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From: "Pascal Obry" <p.obry@der.edf.fr>
Subject: Re: Abstract Data Types (and a question)
Date: 1998/11/26
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Xavier Nicollin a �crit dans le message <365BD117.3EAE@imag.fr>...
>robinsoj@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>
>
>By the way, I have a syntactic question about the parsing of the
>expression ``Abstract Data Type'': should it be undertood as
>``(Abstract Data) Type'' or as ``Abstract (Data Type)''. In other words,
>which one is abstract, the data or the type? My preference goes to the
>``data are abstract'' version, but (AFAIK), almost everyone in the
>francophone world uses the ``type is abstract'' version, i.e. they write
>``Type abstrait de donnees'' instead of ``Type de donnees abstraites''.
>You lucky english-speaking people with your postfix syntax don't have to
>worry about this somehow pedantic question!
>


I'll go for "(Abstract Data) Type".

And you are wrong about the francophone peoples. I've never heard a guy
saying "Type abstrait de donnees''.

The ADT is for us (at least for me): "Type de donnees abstraites''. Les
donn�es
sont abstraites et non pas le type...

Pascal.


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