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=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,fecaa8a6ce69590e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: gauthier@alphainfo.unilim.fr (Michel Gauthier) Subject: Re: Abstract Data Types (and a question) Date: 1998/11/27 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 416194236 References: <72vm3n$ks$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <365BD117.3EAE@imag.fr> <73j4o2$npf$1@cf01.edf.fr> Organization: Universite de Limoges Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-11-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <73j4o2$npf$1@cf01.edf.fr>, "Pascal Obry" wrote: >> 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? [...] >> [...] >> >> And you are wrong about the francophone peoples. I've never heard a guy >> saying "Type abstrait de donnees''. Not that simple. You haven't, but I have. Not relevant, in fact. This is similar to the (IMHO stupid) question of bottles that are either half-full or half-empty. ___They are BOTH.___ Instead of asking whether the interpretation is (ad)t or a(dt), wouln't we ask what every interpretation could bring to the understanding of the underlying concept, which is nethertheless unique ? ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Michel Gauthier / Laboratoire d'informatique 123 avenue Albert Thomas / F-87060 Limoges telephone +33 5 55 43 69 73 fax +33 5 55 43 69 77 ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Hein, quoi, quelle annee dix-neuf cent nonante dix ? What exactly about year nineteen ninety ten ? ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------