Re: Database design
From: Mark Johnson <102334.12_at_compuserve.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 10:59:32 -0800
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 10:59:32 -0800
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"Marshall Spight" <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> And at what point would a relation of paragraphs, say, which would
>> include a sort attribute, have to be fairly termed an ordered
>> relation?
>Never.
Even if the set were so ordered?
>> Or is such simply defined out of the realm of possibility,
>Yes.
But doesn't that just strike you as mere wordplay? If a set is ordered, and one declares it is not, when is it that one can tell the emperor he should put some clothes on?
If a building is on fire, I for one would not stand there and say - fire, what fire? Building, what building? Received on Wed Feb 22 2006 - 19:59:32 CET