On 14 Nov 2004, at 7:11 pm, Henry Story wrote:
What makes it one? Do you have special access to some Platonic realm where you can see exactly what a head structure is? Please let us know how and why it is not an Entry even though for all purposes it looks exactly like one.
This illustrates exactly my point. If you define "entry" to mean what you want it to mean, you will of course always be right. Whether they're a "head" and an "entry", or a "special entry" and a "normal entry", conceptually you haven't changed things one bit, you've just changed the definition of "entry" we're using. Let's just call them "Thing 1" and "Thing 2".
I think that is exactly a very good reason to merge them. Let us simplify the spec, and if we find that a lot of problems end up surfacing because we failed to make a distinction, we can always go back to the previous state!
Well you can unify the syntax of Thing 1 and Thing 2 without having to call the head a "special entry".
It seems a little silly to avoid simplifications to the spec, for some hypothetical distinction we may want to draw in the future.
They're are already several differences between the spec of Thing 1 and Thing 2. PEATWD removes them without concern for the technical implications.
Thank you for closing it Robert.
Graham
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