[cap-talk] "Composite", was "Same" key

[David Hopwood]

Bill Frantz wrote:
> clandau at macslab.com (Charles Landau) on Wednesday, February 14, 2007 wrote:
> 
>>No, I think the choices are:

[with corrections pointed out in my previous posts]

              1                   >1                    >=1
1 (MarkM)   Object              Composite             Composite
2 (Hopwood) Object              Abstraction           Abstraction
3 (Landau)  Atomic object       Composite object      Object

> I am reasonably comfortable with Charlie's names.  In the case where we
> are not interested in how the abstraction is implemented, we have the
> feeling that it is one thing, instead the feeling of a collection of
> things.

My suggested names have that advantage as well, but are more consistent with
existing terminology in OO languages.

-- 
David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood at blueyonder.co.uk>