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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: What is it?
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Date: 17 Feb 90 19:07:52 GMT
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In article <3022@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> cjoslyn@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn) writes:
>
>In class, when I say "every X has a type, value, scope, extent, and
>linkage", what is X? I'd say "data object" but "object" has been taken. 
>"Object or lvalue" isn't workable.  What about "data thing", "piece of
>data"?

Identifier.

				--Blair
				  "En den identifiim, end im too,
				   en dose two ova dare, en dat guy,
				   en den, identifime..."