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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: What is a class in Ada ?
Date: 2000/02/14
Date: 2000-02-14T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wcc66vregca.fsf@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38A6CB7E.F1A1CCEC@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk

Martin Dowie <martin@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk> writes:

> i only know "orthogonal" as meaning 'right-angled' - what do you mean by it in this
> context?

Think of each "feature" as a dimension in a multidimensional cartesian
coordinate system.  If features are orthogonal, they can be combined in
the same sense that the X, Y, Z... coordinates can be defined to define
a point.

- Bob




  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-02-14  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-02-12  0:00 What is a class in Ada ? G
2000-02-11  0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
2000-02-13  0:00   ` Martin Dowie
2000-02-14  0:00     ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-14  0:00     ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2000-02-14  0:00     ` Gautier
2000-02-17  0:00   ` Charles Hixson
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