Re: MV Keys

From: x <x_at_not-exists.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 11:05:43 +0200
Message-ID: <dujidb$o2b$1@emma.aioe.org>

"Jon Heggland" <heggland_at_idi.ntnu.no> wrote in message news:MPG.1e77586b121f976b98978e_at_news.ntnu.no...
> In article <1141659907.033197.11480_at_e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>,
> marshall.spight_at_gmail.com says...
> > Jon Heggland wrote:

> > And for the record, I'd say that unordered data structures are
> > extremely common.

> I'd say that orderedness is just a property of how we choose to
> represent our data, not an inherent property of the data itself.

I'd say that data is just a property of how we choose to represent our order, not an inherent property of the order itself.

> If we make the ordering explicit, the data becomes unordered, if I
understand
> you correctly---yet the information is unchanged.

If we make the data explicit, the order becomes unordered, if I understand you correctly---yet the information is unchanged. Received on Tue Mar 07 2006 - 03:05:43 CST