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Re: number marking

From:<raccoon@...>
Date:Friday, December 17, 1999, 22:22
> -----Original Message----- > From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU]On > Behalf Of FFlores > Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 8:14 PM > To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU > Subject: Re: number marking > > > Eric Christopherson <raccoon@...> wrote: > > > inspired by some post I saw (but have forgotten now). Unmarked > nouns would > > refer to a "class" of objects as a whole, with modifiers to > "instantiate" > > them (in C++ terms) into concrete objects. > > What about 'instantiating' only concrete *definite* objects, > and leaving the mass-quality and undefiniteness of the others > to rest on 'class attributes'?
Hmm, I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this. It's actually been a while since I did anything object-oriented :O)
> [Sorry (just back from getting through an Object Oriented Design > final test)].
Hope it went well!