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- From: grogono@cs.concordia.ca (Peter Grogono)
- Subject: Re: Object hidden state and side effects
- Message-ID: <BzC05w.2xA@newsflash.concordia.ca>
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- Organization: Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
- References: <1992Dec14.175402.1889@crd.ge.com> <1992Dec15.143243.16256@heeg.de> <1992Dec15.224536.13554@crd.ge.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 02:56:19 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- In article <1992Dec15.224536.13554@crd.ge.com> eaker@ukulele.crd.ge.com (Chuck Eaker) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec15.143243.16256@heeg.de>, hasko@heeg.de (Hasko Heinecke) writes:
- >|> In article <1992Dec14.175402.1889@crd.ge.com> eaker@ukulele.crd.ge.com (Chuck Eaker) writes:
- >|> >The point is that computers cannot use "the *real* 3/4."
- >|>
- >|> You wanted philosophy, so here it is: What *is* the real 3/4. What would
- >|> Immanuel Kant say?
- >
- >I'm sure Kant and other philosophers would agree that 3/4 is a rational
- >number, and that whatever the nature of its existence, there is only
- >one such number, it cannot be created, destroyed, copied, or changed
- >in any way. Unlike philosophers, we don't have to worry about "realms"
- > ............
-
- I suggest we all go and re-read \cite{Whitehead:1910} and then resume
- the conversation.
-
- @book{Whitehead:1910
- author = "A.N. Whitehead and B. Russell",
- title = "Principia Mathematica",
- publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
- date = "1910--13"}
-
- Peter
-