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>>> Can you think of a better >>> term for a "bundle of values with no behavior that should never be >>> inherited from"? >> Isn't this akin to "Plain-Old Data"? > It’s a decent match for the C++11 notion of POD, though I believe you can have an inheritance hierarchy of POD types. Earlier versions of the standard match less well (no user provided constructors allowed at all). > > Google results for "abstract value class” have nothing whatsoever to do with Daniel’s definition, so I can see how this might be confusing to someone reading the code. Maybe we can describe such things as spiritually-POD? We can call it POD. i.e, class Foo is a plain-old data class that bundles everything needed to process Bar events. Yeah, sometimes Cheriton's world seems a little disjoint from reality, but you do come away from his class (more-or-less) convinced that a world where everyone followed his rules/policies, it would be, in some ways, c++ utopia. -Daniel ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the QSERV-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=QSERV-L&A=1