Marshall Spight wrote:
>
> I'm still wildly unclear as to what this all means, but
> I got a hint from the above line.
>
> Is the word "abstract" here being used in the same sense that
> is in Java? Meaning roughly: uninstantiable with parts of the
> definition to be filled in at a later time?
No, not really. It has to do with the distinction between on the one
hand houses, people and countries and on the other hand strings, numbers
and booleans. The latter three can be denoted directly, the first three
only indirectly by denoting a certain combination of values associated
with them.
Received on Sat Jul 02 2005 - 14:08:40 CDT
