OK. And Java and C# have the Collection Classes. STL and Collecition Classes
name a group. Is there a generic name for a prototypical member of one of
these groupings? The name should also be applicable to generic code that
implements the Genetic Algorithm.

Perhaps there just isn't such a word.

-- Russ


On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Douglas Roberts <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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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