Re: OO's best feature survey results

From: Alfredo Novoa (alfredo_at_ncs.es)
Date: 11/03/03 

Date: 3 Nov 2003 03:33:32 -0800

tsolakp@yahoo.com (Tsolak Petrosian) wrote in message news:<a052897d.0311021057.7eaaa74a@posting.google.com>...

> > BTW numerical is a type and string is another type. You are using
> > types all the time.
> > Boolean is a type. I think you don't know what a type is.
>
> Thought you can apply type to anything (and where the confusion comes
> from) but boolean, numerical and strings are best viewed as special
> constructs and ADT.

Special construct is very fuzzy and ADT = type.

It's evident that boolean numeric and character string are types.

> Its like saying words in human languages are types
> too.

The set of all words in human languages can be a type, of course.

Alfredo