And the problem is, that we want to build this abstract data type, but we'd like to basically know what kind of object is it, and what functions actually belong to it, how do we use them?

然后我对它们运行了这个方法，就是这一小段代码这个方法,这有意义么？,当然没有了，对不对？,因为你知道，当你把两个极坐标，表示的点进行相加运算的时候？

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A synonym for this is an abstract data type.

还有文献资料等等。

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What we're really doing, or I shouldn't say what we're really doing, a basic piece of what we're doing, when we talk about classes or objects, is we're doing something that Professor Guttag mentioned, we're defining an abstract data type.

或者我不应该，说我们真正要做的，当我谈到类或者对象的时候，我们在做的基本的东西，如Guttag教授提到的,就是定义一个抽象数据类型，那么这到底是什么意思呢？

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