Relation contains Objects
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 15:39:46 -0400
Message-ID: <Qz6O8.233$np2.37812256_at_radon.golden.net>
"James" <jraustin1_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:a6e74506.0206130953.65879669_at_posting.google.com...
> > > Below is the 'updated' OO model with proof of equivalence to a
> > > relation:
> >
> > Your so-called "proof" omits the generic operations such as restriction,
> > projection, cartesian product, join, rename, extension, summary, union,
> > intersection and difference. Not to mention update. Or insert of
> > n-dimensional tuples.
>
> One need not prove "generic operations ... n-dimensional tuples"
> because they have already been proven by the Relational Mathematics.
>
> One only needs to prove that the oo model describes the same concept
> as a relation.
Even were you to demonstrate the generic operations, you would have to contend with Occam's Razor. Received on Thu Jun 13 2002 - 21:39:46 CEST