Re: Ping: dawn, some mvl questions
Date: 21 May 2006 05:48:18 -0700
Message-ID: <1148215698.078204.127990_at_38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
mAsterdam wrote:
> Kenneth Downs wrote:
> > ...
> > I am in the school of thought that says that if you need a list, make a
> > table, that's what the RM is for.
>
> (Not about MV but sets/lists)
>
> I am in school of thought that says that if you see a list, it might
> be set that is meant. People often don't need to distinguish
> between them for day to day purposes,
<snip>
Not only that, but it is impossible to enumerate a set without the
representation being a list. We write in lists, we speak in lists, and
we are sometimes unaware of the meaning we give to a set when we list
it. Does a grocery list refer to a set or would you lose something if
you treated it that way?
Retaining the order of something represented as a list might just
provide ongoing information never verbalized. If a user lists