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
