Re: Columns without names

From: JOG <jog_at_cs.nott.ac.uk>
Date: 16 Sep 2006 05:58:59 -0700
Message-ID: <1158411539.868369.75730@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>

David Cressey wrote:
> "JOG" <jog_at_cs.nott.ac.uk> wrote in message
> news:1158372047.852132.130270_at_p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com...
>
> > These are potentially different statements to those such as "There is a
> > person, Sally" because the latter is stating "There is a person where
> > name:Sally". The values held in the former assertions have no
> > discernable attribute name - rather than a tuple such as {
> > (name:Sally), (age:28)} I just have { (7) } or { (b) }.
>
> Actually, "7" is the name of a number, and not the number itself.

Is it? Could you expand on that, as I'm not sure there isn't a difference? Is that the same for the letter b? I think at some level I am mulling over the concept of atomicity (or non-decomposability) here, and how a domain might be defined as a relation itself. Received on Sat Sep 16 2006 - 07:58:59 CDT