
30 Jun
2005
30 Jun
'05
3:57 p.m.
I'm not convinced, yet. Maybe I'm having difficulties to fully understand you. Can you perhaps try to clarify what makes "abstract" unsuitable in your opinion?
Well in C++ at least abstract has a specific meaning, and from Webster's we get: "Considered apart from concrete existence: an abstract concept. " What we have here in this case is a union of several concrete concepts, it's more like a wildcard really: "match a or b or c". That's the logic anyway, but as I said before I'm not sure how much it really helps. John.