Re: Renaming map->dict, class->type?

Michael Hendricks <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.ai.prolog.swi
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On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Jan Wielemaker <[email protected]> wrote:

> > But words are overloaded :( I would prefer "type" over "class" for
> > the same reason you state above. Maybe "kind"?
>
> Maybe right.  At this moment, `type' isn't a very important concept
> in Prolog, but surely we would like to keep the option open to
> change that.  I'm not against "kind", especially if there is a
> precedent.  Does anyone know that?
>

LIFE calls it "sort".  That's the only precedent I know of.  I like "kind"
the best of the alternatives proposed.

-- 
Michael
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