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From: marc@dumbcat.UUCP (Marco S Hyman)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: object-oriented this, that, and the other thing
Summary: It's a joke.
Message-ID: <131@dumbcat.UUCP>
Date: 2 Dec 89 18:34:40 GMT
References: <2426@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> <190@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> <1561@novavax.UUCP> <76915@linus.UUCP> <984@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1959@tukki.jyu.fi> <1115@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1673@gannet.cl.cam.ac.uk> <10013@june.cs.washington.edu> <21986@brunix.UUCP>
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In article <21986@brunix.UUCP> twl@boojum.UUCP (Ted "Theodore" (W) Leung) writes:
    In the
    absence of code-sharing/grouping mechanisms, what distinguishes an
    object from an ADT?  This opens up the age old question of "what is an
    object", which will probably cause this group to go into conniptions.

Simple.  An object is an ADT that has had its encapsulation broken by the
evils of inheritance.

// marc
(For the humor impared: This is a joke.)
-- 
// Marco S. Hyman		{ames,pyramid,sun}!pacbell!dumbcat!marc


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