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

x wrote:

> Code is data and data is code :-)

Leaving out context gives you that.

Code is data e.g. to compilers.
Data no user explicitly asks
for is code if it only changes
with releases.

> ... Class is an overloaded word :-)

So let's overload type ???

OTOH... that must mean you can give several relevant definitons! Yey! :-)

> No. The actors act and the operators operate. :-)
> The behavior create types. :-)

How?

> And there are different types of behavior. :-)

> And operators have types. :-)

Sloppy.

Operands have *a* type.
The result of an operator is typed.
An operator has type constraints; it can only operate on operands of certain types.

> Funny :-)

Am I spoiling the fun? Received on Thu Jun 24 2004 - 18:36:05 CDT