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

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 02:22 +0000, David Hopwood wrote:
> >>1 (MarkM)   Object                   Composite           ?
> >>2 (Hopwood) Object or Abstraction    Abstraction         Abstraction
> >>3 (Landau)  Atomic object            Composite object    Object


I would firmly reject row 2 (sorry, David). The term "Abstraction" is
far too general, and will lead to very difficult locutions in practice:

  "That abstraction implements an abstraction of...."
vs.
  "That object implements an abstraction of..."

shap