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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Subject: Re: Types, packages & objects : the good old naming conventions  question (without religious ware)
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:15:13 -0500
Date: 2009-11-01T03:15:13-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ud4424q5q.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: c018669e-645e-4aa8-8ac3-550973a38b42@p8g2000yqb.googlegroups.com

"Hibou57 (Yannick Duch�ne)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:

> Remain nouns : they may match either object of types, just because the
> natural language does not make this distinction. Indeed, in every day
> life, we are not talking using type and class concepts (neither our
> ancestors does).

This is an interesting point.

There are some cases of English nouns that are by definition groups; a
gaggle of geese, a pride of lions. But there is no general convention
for this.

I don't know enough other languages to say whether this is a universal
truth about human languages.

> Is this mark very important to be standardized ? 

Maybe for Ada 83; it is too late now.

-- 
-- Stephe



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-01  8:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-29 17:11 Types, packages & objects : the good old naming conventions question (without religious ware) Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-29 17:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-10-29 18:11 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-10-29 22:41   ` tmoran
2009-10-30  0:01   ` Robert A Duff
2009-10-30  4:17     ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-10-30  4:52   ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-30  5:08     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-10-30  5:28       ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-31 12:13       ` Stephen Leake
2009-10-30  8:14     ` tmoran
2009-10-31  6:35       ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2009-11-01  8:24         ` Stephen Leake
2009-11-01 10:18           ` Peter C. Chapin
2009-11-01 13:01             ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-11-01 13:40               ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-11-05  0:33             ` Stephen Leake
2009-11-05  8:37               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-11-05  8:48                 ` Niklas Holsti
2009-11-05  9:13                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-11-06  9:54                   ` Stephen Leake
2009-11-06 10:23                     ` Niklas Holsti
2009-11-06 10:24                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-11-05 20:18               ` Vincent Marciante
2009-11-06 10:26                 ` Stephen Leake
2009-11-06 11:34                   ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-11-06 12:38                   ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-11-07  5:54                     ` Stephen Leake
2009-11-06 18:58                   ` Vincent Marciante
2009-11-07  5:57                     ` Stephen Leake
2009-11-09 18:25                       ` Vincent Marciante
2009-11-10  7:51                         ` Stephen Leake
2009-11-10 16:53                           ` Vincent Marciante
2009-12-29 23:27                             ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-12-30  9:31                               ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-12-30 14:13                                 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-12-31 13:48                                 ` Marco
2010-01-09 15:03                                   ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-01-07 15:20                                 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-01-07 15:42                                   ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-11-02  0:30           ` tmoran
2009-10-31 12:18       ` Stephen Leake
2009-10-30 10:52   ` Stephen Leake
2009-10-30 12:11     ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-30 13:40     ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-10-31 11:58       ` Stephen Leake
2009-11-02 20:36         ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-11-02 21:47         ` Randy Brukardt
2009-10-30 18:57     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-10-31  1:45       ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-31  5:30         ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-31  5:44           ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-31  9:49           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-10-31 11:30             ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-31 11:47               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-10-31 12:38                 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-31 13:36                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-11-01  8:15           ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2009-10-31 12:11       ` Stephen Leake
2009-11-02 19:54         ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-11-05  0:39           ` Stephen Leake
2009-11-05 11:44             ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-11-06 10:14               ` Stephen Leake
2009-11-06 14:14                 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-11-07  5:49                   ` Stephen Leake
2009-11-07 14:28                     ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-11-07 14:33                       ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-11-08  9:48                       ` Stephen Leake
2009-11-09 19:09                         ` Vincent Marciante
2009-11-10  7:58                           ` Stephen Leake
2009-10-29 18:33 ` Niklas Holsti
2009-10-29 19:35 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-10-30  7:29   ` Niklas Holsti
2009-10-30 18:36     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-10-30  9:24 ` dhenry
2009-10-30 10:01   ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-30 18:40   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-10-31 12:25     ` Stephen Leake
2009-10-31 12:21   ` Stephen Leake
2009-10-31 13:08     ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-11-01  8:21       ` Stephen Leake
2009-10-30 10:48 ` Stephen Leake
2009-10-31  6:27   ` Splitting the object and type name spaces? (Was: Types, packages & objects : the good old naming conventions question (without religious ware)) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2009-10-31  7:16     ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-31  7:21       ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-31  9:58     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-11-02 22:05   ` Types, packages & objects : the good old naming conventions question (without religious ware) Randy Brukardt
2009-11-04 15:44     ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
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2009-10-29 17:48 Britt Snodgrass
2009-10-30 10:56 ` Stephen Leake
2009-10-31 12:26   ` Stephen Leake
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