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Subject: Re: Types,
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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:15:13 -0500
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"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.

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