Re: Mixing OO and DB

On 23 feb, 07:01, Marshall <marshall.spi..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 22, 9:14 pm, mAsterdam <mAster..._at_vrijdag.org> wrote:
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> > Marshall wrote:
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> > > THAT is a definition.
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> > How can I rephrase this to qualify to your standards of what a
> > definition is?:
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> >    [Value]
> >      "A value is unique, eternal, immutable, and is not
> >       fixed in time or space (it has no address)."
> >                     - Darren Duncan
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> > Ok, ok. I'll unhide my hidden agenda: nobody responded
> > my proposal for the glossary until now :-)
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> > Any more silence I'll consider as approval.
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> Hmmm. Well, this unfortunately isn't just a matter of phrasing.
> A set of descriptive qualities is not a definition.
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> Unfortunately where "value" is concerned, it is often the
> most low-level terms that are the hardest to define.
> By way of example, I'm paying a modest amount of
> attention to set theory lately, and it uses terms like
> "set" and the membership relation but explicitly does
> not define them.
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> For what it's worth, lately when I think of "value", I just think
> "a member of a set."

Everything is a member of at least one set. So everything is a value?

• Jan Hidders