On 5/21/05, Bob Wyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Robert Sayre wrote:
> > Temporal order of what? They are all the same entry, so what is it
> > you are temporally ordering?
>         We are discussing the temporal ordering of multiple non-identical
> *instances* of a single Atom entry. It is common in the realm of software
> engineering to deal with this concept of "instances." 
>
> Things are often
> considered to be simultaneously "different" and "the same". (I am who I am
> today -- as I was when I was a child, nonetheless, I am very different today
> than I was when I was a child. The instance of me today differs from the
> instance of me that you might have come across many years ago.) But, perhaps
> this concept is too abstract for some readers...

I'm unconvinced. Have a giant -1.

Robert Sayre

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