On Saturday, August 19, 2017 at 11:59:41 AM UTC+1, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > Consider that in my family, one of our most precious heirlooms is the axe of > my > great-great-great grandfather, which we have passed down from eldest son to > eldest son for generations. > > The axe is now almost 200 years old. Of course, occasionally the handle has > broken and we've had to replace it, and from time to time the axe head itself > was so worn out that it had to be replaced, but apart from those repairs the > axe is the same one that my great-great-great grandfather used almost two > centuries ago. > > https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-time/ > > -- > Steve > “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure > enough, things got worse.
Rather like Trigger's roadsweeping broom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1VNNbSYdt0 Kindest regards. Mark Lawrence. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list