Oct. 2, 2006
9:50 p.m.
kirby urner wrote:
Scott mentioned our not being able to see how many handles a mug has, but with the sys module we can: .... Perhaps I said that, but what I _meant_ was that you could see the handles. In my mind, at least, there is a huge difference between seeing the handles (what is this value's name?) and knowing how many there are. I just don't know a nifty concrete-world analog to that. The Library of Congress idea (too flawed, I agree) was neat because objects (books) could become "lost" without a librarian noticing. Then on to: "Well, if there were a count, and, ......"
-- Scott David Daniels Scott.Daniels@Acm.Org