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

[David Hopwood]

Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> 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..."

In complete examples, I'm sure that such difficulties can be avoided.
For instance:

  That abstraction implements a hash table.
  That abstraction implements a relational database query.
  etc.

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