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From: "(see below)" <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Generic Package
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:57:43 +0100
Date: 2007-04-30T15:57:43+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C25BC277.A8A53%yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: x83lepvaonj0$.8nqcwcdg7ykd.dlg@40tude.net

On 30/4/07 07:58, in article x83lepvaonj0$.8nqcwcdg7ykd.dlg@40tude.net,
"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:36:53 +0100, (see below) wrote:
> 
>> On 29/4/07 18:48, in article 1n38bsd8xx0uc$.1eo1arncmwvkn.dlg@40tude.net,
>> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
>> 
>>> What about "polymorphism"? It means exactly the opposite to what its
>>> translation suggests (many-formed/shaped).
>> 
>> You have lost me. It means exactly what it says.
> 
> But there is only one form (~interface) of a polymorphic thing. Substance
> (~implementation) is different. They should probably take "convergent"
> instead.

Precisely: the "substance" (you are beginning to sound
like a mediaeval scholastic theologian) is polymorphic.

-- 
Bill Findlay
<surname><forename> chez blueyonder.co.uk





  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-30 14:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-25 22:15 Generic Package andrew.carroll
2007-04-26  0:07 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-04-26  7:46   ` Markus E Leypold
2007-04-26  6:02 ` Martin Krischik
2007-04-26  7:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-26 15:31 ` andrew.carroll
2007-04-26 16:07   ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-04-26 19:40     ` andrew.carroll
2007-04-26 20:01       ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-04-26 18:54   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-26 21:52     ` Simon Wright
2007-04-27  9:00       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-27 11:11         ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-04-27 12:06           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-27 12:52             ` Markus E Leypold
2007-04-27 14:10             ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-04-27 14:16               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-27 21:44                 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-04-28  7:38                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-28 17:50                     ` Simon Wright
2007-04-28 21:04                     ` Ray Blaak
2007-04-29 16:33                       ` Markus E Leypold
2007-04-27 19:44             ` Simon Wright
2007-04-27 20:34               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-27 21:16                 ` Simon Wright
2007-04-28  7:36                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-27 11:43         ` Markus E Leypold
2007-04-28 17:35           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-28 23:06             ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-04-29  8:19               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-29 15:10                 ` (see below)
2007-04-29 17:48                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-29 22:36                     ` (see below)
2007-04-30  6:58                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-30  9:59                         ` Markus E Leypold
2007-04-30 10:01                         ` Markus E Leypold
2007-04-30 10:36                         ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-04-30 10:40                           ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-04-30 12:14                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-30 14:57                         ` (see below) [this message]
2007-04-30 10:30                 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-04-30 12:16                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-30 14:48                     ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-04-30 16:29                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-30 17:24                         ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-04-30 18:54                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-04-30 19:29                         ` Simon Wright
2007-04-30 20:04                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-05-01  0:11                             ` Markus E Leypold
2007-05-01  9:02                             ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-05-01 10:19                               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-05-01 13:42                                 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-05-01 17:16                                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-05-01 19:14                                     ` Randy Brukardt
2007-05-01 20:14                                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-05-02  7:52                                         ` Markus E Leypold
2007-05-02  8:06                                       ` Markus E Leypold
2007-05-03  0:37                                         ` Randy Brukardt
2007-05-03  8:36                                           ` Markus E Leypold
2007-05-03 23:16                                             ` Randy Brukardt
2007-05-04  0:15                                               ` Markus E Leypold
2007-05-01 21:41                                     ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-05-02  6:57                                       ` Ray Blaak
2007-05-02  8:22                                         ` Markus E Leypold
2007-05-02  8:07                                       ` Markus E Leypold
2007-05-02 10:29                                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-05-02 11:48                                         ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-05-02 11:50                                           ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-05-02 13:12                                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-05-02 14:21                                             ` Markus E Leypold
2007-05-03 18:27                                             ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-05-03 19:07                                               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-05-03 19:49                                                 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-04-29 16:26             ` Markus E Leypold
2007-04-26 21:50   ` Simon Wright
2007-04-27  4:45   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-04-27  7:45     ` Martin Krischik
2007-04-27 22:54       ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-04-30 20:13         ` Matthew Heaney
2007-04-26 20:48 ` andrew.carroll
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-02 23:15 Mr. J.
2003-12-03  9:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-12-02 23:13 generic package Ratson Janiv
2003-12-03 17:39 ` Stephen Leake
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