Re: General semantics

Erwin wrote:

[...]

>Cans of cat food can be identified solely by their location in 3D
>space. However, noone cares a fucking shit which particular can it
>was that any customer took from the shelf. Or, iow, for cans of cat
>food, identity doesn't matter either.
>
>Now, typical OOP systems take identity as a foundational concept,
>meaning no more and no less than that they are inappropriate to
>address any problem where "identity really doesn't matter".

That conclusion is overly hasty. Nothing prevents me from representing cat food as an 'amount of cat food' property to some object.

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Reinier