Re: By The Dawn's Normal Light
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:33:05 -0700
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"Dawn M. Wolthuis" <dwolt_at_tincat-group.comREMOVE> wrote:
>"erk" <eric.kaun_at_pnc.com> wrote in message
Video and pictures have structure. Why could the collections
>news:1098899907.484940.109850_at_f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>> I can buy that atomicity is relative... that seems reasonable. So from
>> the point of view of relational theory, sets and lists have no
>> structure (their operators can do whatever they like, as with any other
>> type), but relations do.
>
>It makese sense to me that types like video and pictures would be black
>boxes to the "collections engine" but a list of text has a structure that
>the collections engine could accomodate. --dawn
It is merely a change in representation to put a video into text
form. (Whether it would be best manipulated that way is doubtful, but
it is possible.)
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
Computerese Irregular Verb Conjugation:
I have preferences.
You have biases.
He/She has prejudices.
Received on Thu Oct 28 2004 - 00:33:05 CEST