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Re: c.d.theory glossary -- definition of "class"

From: Laconic2 <laconic2_at_comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 08:28:58 -0400
Message-ID: <NuednVlB56q26kTd4p2dnA@comcast.com>

"Dawn M. Wolthuis" <dwolt_at_tincat-group.com> wrote in message news:cba23f$vsv$1_at_news.netins.net...
> Systems Analysis & Design: An Object-Oriented Approach with UML by Dennis,
> Wixom, and Tegarden
>
> "A class is the template we use to define objects."
>
> This leaves the meatier definition to "objects" but at least it states
more
> clearly what a class is.

How about this?

"A class is a message to an object generator"

I was going to suppress this post, as too frivolous, but I thought soebody might be able to do something with it. Received on Wed Jun 23 2004 - 07:28:58 CDT

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