Re: relations aren't types?

From: Adrian Kubala <adrian_at_sixfingeredman.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 01:47:38 -0600
Message-ID: <slrnc078kq.3b7.adrian@sixfingeredman.net>

John Jacob <jingleheimerschmitt_at_hotmail.com> schrieb:
> Date is a type available globally, and any user can take advantage of
> it, either as a scalar value, or by acessing some component of some
> representation of the value. [...] So the fact that a given scalar has
> structure at a lower level is not visible in the language. This is
> what makes them scalar.

I hear logical contradictions:
People can choose to access the representation of a scalar value AND the value is scalar because its representation is not visible?

People can use dates "as a scalar value" (or not) AND this scalar-ness is inherent in dates themselves? Received on Tue Jan 13 2004 - 01:47:38 CST