Re: Relation Schemata vs. Relation Variables

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 02:23:58 GMT
Message-ID: <2btHg.1221$9u.16561@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>

paul c wrote:

> Bob Badour wrote:
> ...
>

>>   Your emphasis
>>
>>> on language precision, which some people might call pedantry, hurts 
>>> my head, but I suppose it's necessary and I really shouldn't complain 
>>> if the theorists are to find any common ground with the hackers (or 
>>> if the hackers are to get their act together).
>>
>> I am not even sure what you are saying above. This is a precise field. 
>> If you do not understand what a tuple is, you will not understand much 
>> of anything in this field.

>
> "precise field"? that's a laugh, there are plenty who avoid precision
> and claim the same thing. okay, just in case there's some meat in this
> thread, which i'm starting to doubt, stupid me, i'll take back the
> pedantry comment, for now, and substitute mysticism for it. surely the
> notion of tuple is a mere construct to enable talk about relations.

All words are constructs that enable us to talk. This is a precise field; hence, we use precise terms like tuple. Received on Thu Aug 24 2006 - 21:23:58 CDT