From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: Naming of Tagged Types and Associated Packages
Date: 1998/08/04
Date: 1998-08-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980804091455.11315A-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6q6h7l$t7l$1@platane.wanadoo.fr
[-- Warning: decoded text below may be mangled, UTF-8 assumed --]
[-- Attachment #1: Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII, Size: 1213 bytes --]
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote:
> Matthew Heaney a écrit dans le message ...
> >A package name is not a type name, because a package is not a type. A
> >package is a namespace, and it exists only (more or less) to prevent
> >name clashes among identically named types.
> >
> This is absolutely true from the point of view of the *language
> definition*. However, you *use* it to form higher level abstractions.
> It then becomes that higher level abstraction.
> For example, a paint is just a chemical product with peculiar optical
> properties, but when used in a certain way, it becomes the Joconde...
>
> A package used in a certain way makes up a class (in classical OO mode).
> When used otherwise, it may become something else, and I 100% agree that
> different conventions might then be preferable.
Just a small point, which I'm sure Jean-Pierre understands, a class, in
classical OO mode, is neither a package, nor a type, but combines elements
of both. I think its just as correct, maybe more :-), to say that a tagged
type used a certain way makes up a class. By "classical OO" here I mean
Eiffel style OO in which every module is a type.
-- Brian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-08-04 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 138+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-07-16 0:00 Naming of Tagged Types and Associated Packages taashlo
1998-07-25 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-07-25 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-07-25 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-07-26 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-07-26 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-07-26 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-07-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-07-26 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-07-27 0:00 ` dennison
1998-07-27 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1998-07-27 0:00 ` dennison
1998-07-27 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-07-28 0:00 ` dennison
1998-07-28 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-07-28 0:00 ` dennison
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Chris Brand
1998-07-30 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-07-30 0:00 ` dennison
1998-07-30 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-07-30 0:00 ` dennison
1998-08-01 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1998-08-02 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-03 0:00 ` dennison
1998-08-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-04 0:00 ` dennison
1998-08-04 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-08-04 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
1998-08-05 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1998-08-05 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-07 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1998-08-13 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1998-08-14 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1998-08-14 0:00 ` adam
1998-08-05 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-08-07 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1998-08-07 0:00 ` doylep
1998-08-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-08-08 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-10 0:00 ` doylep
1998-08-10 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-08-10 0:00 ` John Volan
1998-08-10 0:00 ` John Volan
1998-08-11 0:00 ` doylep
1998-08-11 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-08-13 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1998-08-13 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-09-01 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-09-01 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-09-01 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-09-01 0:00 ` Bob Collins
1998-09-02 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-09-04 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1998-08-11 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1998-08-11 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1998-08-11 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1998-09-01 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-13 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1998-08-13 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-08-15 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1998-08-15 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-08-18 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1998-08-14 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1998-08-17 0:00 ` doylep
1998-08-19 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1998-08-12 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1998-08-08 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-08 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1998-08-09 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-10 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1998-08-11 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1998-08-11 0:00 ` geoff
1998-08-11 0:00 ` John Volan
1998-08-31 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-31 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-09-06 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1998-09-06 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-09-04 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1998-09-06 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-09-06 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1998-09-06 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1998-09-06 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-09-06 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1998-09-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-09-07 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1998-09-16 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-09-04 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1998-09-05 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1998-09-06 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-09-06 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-09-04 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1998-09-05 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-09-05 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1998-09-05 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1998-09-05 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1998-08-11 0:00 ` doylep
1998-08-05 0:00 ` Static Polymorphism (Was Re: Naming of Tagged Types...) Brian Rogoff
1998-08-06 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-06 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-07-28 0:00 ` Naming of Tagged Types and Associated Packages Brian Rogoff
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-07-28 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1998-07-28 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1998-07-28 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-07-28 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-07-28 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-07-28 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-07-28 0:00 ` dennison
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-07-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-07-30 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1998-08-06 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-06 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-08-31 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-07-27 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-07-28 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-07-28 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-07-28 0:00 ` dennison
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-07-29 0:00 ` dennison
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-07-30 0:00 ` dennison
1998-07-30 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-07-30 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-07-30 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-07-30 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-07-31 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-07-31 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-08-01 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-08-04 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-04 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-08-10 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1998-07-26 0:00 tmoran
1998-07-27 0:00 ` dennison
replies disabled
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox