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Subject: Re: [ubl-cmsc] Comments on document - 3.17.04 meeting
Thanks. As to your second point, I've accepted and integrated it. On 03/18/2004 12:59 PM, Fabio Arciniegas wrote: >>If object theorists cannot see that 'ad hoc' as used here does not mean >>'ad hoc polymorphism' then they have a problem that extends way beyond >>what this paper addresses ;) > > > :):) amusing and true. > I was thinking more of the layman who could get confused, but really is not > much of a probability (actually 99% of "oo programmers" wouldn't be able to > say what "ad hoc polymorphism" would be). You are right; the change would > be inconsequential, "ad hoc" is fine, and I withdraw the comment. > > F. > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Eduardo Gutentag [mailto:Eduardo.Gutentag@Sun.COM] >>Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 3:43 PM >>To: Ubl-Cmsc@Lists. Oasis-Open. Org >>Subject: Re: [ubl-cmsc] Comments on document - 3.17.04 meeting >> >> >>I'm uncomfortable with the thought that a particular technology >>can appropriate >>for itself terminology that has been in use for centuries, if not >>millenia, >>and other legitimate uses become displaced. I would like to continue using >>the term 'ad hoc', which is (at least to me) more appropriate >>than 'arbitrary'. >>The latter has a connotation of capriciousness or whimsy that the former >>does not. >> >>If object theorists cannot see that 'ad hoc' as used here does not mean >>'ad hoc polymorphism' then they have a problem that extends way beyond >>what this paper addresses ;) >> >>Opinions, please??? >> >> >>On 03/17/2004 05:23 PM, Fabio Arciniegas wrote: >>[...] >> >> >>>1.1 >>>line 131 and all other instances of the term "ad-hoc": all this material >>>should be pretty careful about object theory terminology (after >> >>all is all >> >>>about inheritance and polymorphism and so on), so I suggest we >> >>don't use the >> >>>term "ad-hoc" in this context to avoid confusion with the >> >>notion of "ad-hoc >> >>>polymorphism". >>>We can simply replace "ad-hoc" with "arbitrary". >>> >> >>[...] >> >> >>>.- >>> >>>Fabio Arciniegas - Chief Technical Officer | "So far as I can >> >>remember, >> >>> Postgraphy, LLC : there is not one word in >>> | the Gospels in praise of >>> http://www.postgraphy.com/about/faa | intelligence" - Bertrand >>>Russell >>> >>> >>> >>>To unsubscribe from this mailing list (and be removed from the >> >>roster of the OASIS TC), go to >>http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ubl-cmsc/members/leav > > e_workgroup.php. > > > -- > Eduardo Gutentag | e-mail: eduardo.gutentag@Sun.COM > Web Technologies and Standards | Phone: +1 510 550 4616 x31442 > Sun Microsystems Inc. | W3C AC Rep / OASIS BoD > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list (and be removed from the roster of the > OASIS TC), go to > http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ubl-cmsc/members/leave_workgrou > p.php. > > > -- Eduardo Gutentag | e-mail: eduardo.gutentag@Sun.COM Web Technologies and Standards | Phone: +1 510 550 4616 x31442 Sun Microsystems Inc. | W3C AC Rep / OASIS BoD
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