On Mar 14, 9:15 am, Bob Badour <bbad..._at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> The word "object" is essentially meaningless. It has no clear definition
> and gets used to mean a variety of things. Those who use it frequently
> do so to impede communication.- Hide quoted text -
>
Well, the statement "instance of an ADT" is not meaningless (it can be
expressed axiomatically), and is perhaps the clearest definition of
"object". Admittitly, there remains a vestige of what might be
described as "mystery OO", but that appears to be vanishing with the
passage of time.
Regards,
Daniel Parker
Received on Wed Mar 14 2007 - 10:45:30 CDT
