On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:40 AM, Hans Georg Schaathun <h...@schaathun.net> wrote: > On Wed, 11 May 2011 01:27:36 +1000, Chris Angelico > <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > : Language is for communication. If we're not using the same meanings > : for words, we will have problems. > > So if you adopt the word class to mean a type (or composite type), > as in python, what word would you use for a class of types (as in > haskell or ada)? > > I think there are too many meanings and too few words ... > > That's why some languages support overloading.
Of course. Nobody ever said that one name had to point to one value... oh wait. Yes, Virginia, there is overloading. Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
