[1] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

abstract data type
     
         adt a kind of data abstraction where a
        type's internal form is hidden behind a set of access
        functions.  values of the type are created and inspected only
        by calls to the access functions.  this allows the
        implementation of the type to be changed without requiring any
        changes outside the module in which it is defined.
     
        objects and adts are both forms of data abstraction, but
        objects are not adts.  objects use procedural abstraction
        methods, not type abstraction.
     
        a classic example of an adt is a stack data type for which
        functions might be provided to create an empty stack, to
        push values onto a stack and to pop values from a stack.
     
        reynolds paper
        http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~gunter/publications/documents/taoop94.html.
     
        cook paper "oop vs adts"
        http://www.wcook.org/papers/oopvsadt/cookoopvsadt90.pdf.
     
        2003-07-03
     
     
see also:
data abstraction access functions module objects stack push 
pop lt;reynolds papergt; lt;cook paper "oop vs adts"gt; 

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