Re: MV Keys

From: vc <boston103_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 3 Mar 2006 07:24:37 -0800
Message-ID: <1141399477.707086.33490@z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>

Jon Heggland wrote:
> In article <1141393487.167645.153600_at_v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>,
> boston103_at_hotmail.com says...
> >
> > Saying that the date is not scalar is akin to claiming that 254 is not
> > a scalar because it consists of units, tens and hundreds ;)
>
> You say that as if it were a silly thing to claim. :)

Is it not ? Forgetting about time zones, the date is just a natural number in a peculiar notation (or if one wants to be picky, a subtype thereof). Is the natural number a compound type ?

> --
> Jon
Received on Fri Mar 03 2006 - 09:24:37 CST