From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,c52c30d32b866eae X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,c52c30d32b866eae X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,2ea02452876a15e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: bill.williams@gecm.com Subject: Re: Ada terminology (was Re: Real OO) Date: 1996/05/08 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 154305245 references: <4mn0vd$7o9@news.ox.ac.uk> followup-to: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object organization: GEC-Marconi Research Centre newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object Date: 1996-05-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Don't really want to nitpick, but I'm sorry, I couldn't resist... stt@henning.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft) writes: > David Hopwood (lady0065@sable.ox.ac.uk) wrote: > > : Maybe it's just me, but... > : Why does Ada use the words 'type' and 'class' in the opposite sense > : to everyone else? > [...] > > 2) "Class" is a synonym for "set" in mathematics, so at least > we use "class" the same way mathematicians do. In other OOP languages, class is used to characterise a "set" of objects so we do too. > Your mileage may vary... Yes :-) > : David Hopwood > : david.hopwood@lmh.ox.ac.uk > > -Tucker Taft stt@inmet.com http://www.inmet.com/~stt/ > Intermetrics, Inc. Cambridge, MA USA > Bill Williams -- Bill Williams |GEC-Marconi does not necessarily GEC-Marconi Research Centre |endorse my opinions! bill.williams@gecm.com Tel: +44 1245 242016 Fax: +44 1245 242003