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Re: number marking

From:FFlores <fflores@...>
Date:Friday, December 17, 1999, 2:14
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'? [Sorry (just back from getting through an Object Oriented Design final test)]. --Pablo Flores http://www.geocities.com/pablo-david/index.html http://www.geocities.com/pablo-david/draseleq.html