Re: Demo: Modelling Cost of Travel Paths Between Towns

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 04:41:42 GMT, Marshall Spight wrote:

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>> John // One and only representation of John
>> ->Mary ->likes ->John // A relation which does not metion John
>> // but refers to John.
>
>Okay, you are using a reference to John in place of John a second
>time. But you can't reuse that reference, because then you would be
>storing something, the reference, twice, which would be redundant
>according to your personal definition. So you can use something
>at most twice; once as the original and once as a reference. Bummer.

Hi Marshall,

No, there really is no such limit. You can also refer to the reference, then refer to the referernce to the reference, etc.

John

->Mary ->likes ->John
->Paula ->->likes ->->John
->->->John ->->->likes ->->Mary

Best, Hugo

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