From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Inherited Methods and such
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:49:47 +0200
Date: 2007-09-18T22:48:44+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uzkw84opwssw$.h8beugf5pvdp$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87k5qnu5jy.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:39:13 +0200, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> Call me religious all you want. I thing your reasoning is wrong. In
> human languages there are words to denote concepts,
Natural languages are non-formal.
> and I think
> T'Class denotes the concept of "the tagged type T or any type derived
> therefrom", i.e. the Ada concept of a class.
Is there a difference between a type and a concept of?
BTW, class as an OOP concept is not "the tagged type T or any type derived
therefrom," because T is irrelevant in the concept of class. But our
T'Class refers to a *concrete* class rooted in nothing, but T. You cannot
say that 12 is a concept of number. At most, a Platonist could argue that
12 denotes a concept of twelveness, and that "concept" denotes
"conceptness," while "conceptness" denotes, ...? (:-))
> T'Class is not a specific type, it is a class-wide type.
Yet it is a type, and T'Class denotes nothing but that type. So:
X : T'Class := ...
declares a variable X of a type, not of a concept.
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2007-09-17 14:26 Inherited Methods and such shaunpatterson
2007-09-17 15:11 ` Ludovic Brenta
2007-09-17 16:46 ` shaunpatterson
2007-09-17 19:07 ` Ludovic Brenta
2007-09-17 20:22 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-17 21:07 ` Ludovic Brenta
2007-09-18 14:27 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-18 14:27 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-18 15:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-18 18:34 ` Ludovic Brenta
2007-09-18 19:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-18 19:39 ` Ludovic Brenta
2007-09-18 20:49 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2007-09-18 21:10 ` Simon Wright
2007-09-18 20:39 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-18 21:12 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-19 14:49 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-19 15:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-19 22:13 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-20 8:12 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-20 13:52 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-20 16:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-20 20:45 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-21 18:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-21 21:02 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-22 8:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-22 21:53 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-23 8:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-23 20:36 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-24 9:32 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-24 15:02 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-24 19:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-25 20:53 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-26 10:42 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-26 21:31 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-27 15:02 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-27 21:02 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-26 12:21 ` Robert A Duff
2007-09-26 12:54 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-26 21:37 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-26 23:47 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-09-27 21:08 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-28 0:44 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-09-28 20:32 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-28 22:35 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-09-29 23:58 ` Robert A Duff
2007-09-26 12:26 ` Robert A Duff
2007-09-26 21:50 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-26 22:20 ` Ray Blaak
2007-09-27 0:01 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-09-27 13:39 ` Robert A Duff
2007-09-27 14:54 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-28 0:35 ` Randy Brukardt
[not found] ` <7p6gc1s9imfa$.kmvwf5zyf8e9.dlg@40tude.net>
2007-09-28 22:53 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-09-29 20:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-27 21:23 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-28 19:12 ` Robert A Duff
2007-09-28 19:02 ` Robert A Duff
2007-09-28 19:42 ` Robert A Duff
2007-09-28 20:44 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-28 22:40 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-09-29 20:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-29 20:52 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-30 8:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-29 23:47 ` Robert A Duff
2007-09-29 20:48 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-29 23:39 ` Robert A Duff
2007-09-30 8:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-29 23:42 ` Robert A Duff
2007-09-25 1:59 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-09-25 8:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-25 21:02 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-09-26 12:42 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-18 4:03 ` Steve
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