But not *too* generic.  Just generic enough.  You seem to be difficult to
please.

What you appear to be asking for is exactly that the STL brought to C++.
The Standard Template Library: a completely generic yet well-specified set
of containers for any kind of data object, providing the ability to
specialize iterators thus allowing the developer to do whatever he wants to
the contained data objects.

--Doug

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Russ Abbott <[email protected]> wrote:

> Glenn,
>
> I'm missing the connection between *undecidable *and what I'm asking for.I
> don't want a property of these things; I want a generic name for them.
>
> -- Russ
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 12:42 PM, glen e. p. ropella <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thus spake Russ Abbott circa 09/07/2009 12:14 PM:
>> > This is to the programmers on this list.
>> >
>> > I'm looking for a word that refers generically to software that is open
>> to
>> > virtually object in its host language. The best way for me to explain it
>> is
>> > with examples.
>>
>> How about "undecidable"?  Or perhaps "semidecidable"?
>>
>>  
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decidability_(logic)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decidability_%28logic%29>
>>
>> --
>> glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://agent-based-modeling.com
>>
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