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Re: The naive test for equality

From: David Cressey <david.cressey_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 14:39:55 GMT
Message-ID: <%MpIe.2973$ns.823@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net>

"Marshall Spight" <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com> wrote in message news:1123129545.552826.188470_at_g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> David Cressey wrote:

> > that's what I'm calling "the synonym problem".
> > In this case, an equality test of the referents may require some kind of
> > equivalence test of the references.
>
> Sure. I'd say "value" instead of "referent", but I get you.

I'm going to stick with "referent" rather than "value". "Referent" is less specific than "value", and that's what I intend. Received on Thu Aug 04 2005 - 09:39:55 CDT

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