What is it?

[Frank Wales]

In some article Cliff Joslyn (cjoslyn at bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu) writes:

>In class, when I say "every X has a type, value, scope, extent, and
>linkage", what is X? I'd say "data object" but "object" has been taken. 
>"Object or lvalue" isn't workable.  What about "data thing", "piece of
>data"?

Datum?
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