Re: The Fact of relational algebra (was Re: Clean Object Class Design -- What is it?)

Jan,

I'm delighted to see so much agreement breaking out in this topic. It must be Yuletide.

> Agreed
> Neither memory nor any other storage medium *is* the object - it's just a
> representation.

Now perhaps some people may offer their opinion on the following:

Is the representation of an object "data"?

If the representation is stored in a database, must there be something that allows a suitable reader to
interpret the representation? Is that something a data model? To whom is that data model relevant?

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Regards,
    David Cressey
    www.dcressey.com