plain sf hp 99

Likewise, Class is not a class of real instances but a class of classes (namely, the class of all classes of real instances). Instantation could be renamed Class and Class renamed Type to avoid this. In that case, the members of Class would not be classes and the members of Type would not be types
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Comments: plain sf hp 99

I'm worried now; that first example about classes and instances actually made sense to me. From reading the extended quote I get the impression that it might have originally appeared in an article/whatever on how to write intelligible program code. Oh, the irony, the irony!
Posted by Gummo Trotsky at July 28, 2004 01:10 PM

"an unavoidable conflict of terminology..."
Posted by boynton at July 28, 2004 01:27 PM