HaloO,
John M. Dlugosz wrote:
Yes. How is a snapshot different from the object?
My interpretation is that === is an equivalence relation
on a WHICH set and eqv is an equivalence relation on a
WHAT set. A mutable value is an element of a (n1):1 mapping
of a subset of WHAT to a single WHICH. A
I've searched the archives, but did not see a good explanation of what eqv
does, and what is meant by snapshotting in the description of the synopses.
Can anyone explain it (with examples?) or point to an existing treatment,
please?
--John
John M. Dlugosz wrote:
I've searched the archives, but did not see a good explanation of what eqv
does,
and what is meant by snapshotting in the description of the synopses.
Try this: http://markmail.org/message/vub5hceisf6cuemk
Can anyone explain it (with examples?) or point to an
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 4:00 PM, John M. Dlugosz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've searched the archives, but did not see a good explanation of what eqv
does, and what is meant by snapshotting in the description of the synopses.
Can anyone explain it (with examples?) or point to an existing
I suspect that at the core of John's question is the fact that nobody
has ever actually said what 'snapshot semantics' is: it's a term
that's been tossed around with the assumption that people already know
its meaning.
My own understanding of it is that snapshot semantics involves
looking at an
Adriano Ferreira a.r.ferreira-at-gmail.com |Perl 6| wrote:
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 4:00 PM, John M. Dlugosz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've searched the archives, but did not see a good explanation of what eqv
does, and what is meant by snapshotting in the description of the synopses.
Can
Jon Lang dataweaver-at-gmail.com |Perl 6| wrote:
I suspect that at the core of John's question is the fact that nobody
has ever actually said what 'snapshot semantics' is: it's a term
that's been tossed around with the assumption that people already know
its meaning.
My own understanding of it
On 2008-May-3, at 5:12 pm, John M. Dlugosz wrote:
Jon Lang dataweaver-at-gmail.com |Perl 6| wrote:
My own understanding of it is that snapshot semantics involves
looking at an immutable copy of an object (a snapshot of it)
instead of looking at the object itself. That said, my
