On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 08:45:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My reply is probably very nearly pedantic, but the question > raised is a venerable one: Do you want your system to be > name-centric or key-centric. A name-centric system is one > where the name is the identity, per se, and the key is an > attribute of that name.
Well, if you want to be pedantic (and I think this is a good place for it), no object can be an identity. An identity is a testable relationship among collections of objects, such as "(1+1) = 2". A given object may be part of many identities -- for example, (4/2) = 2. A name or a key may *label* a particular identity. So your question perhaps should be: which set of labels do you want to use? This is why I keep banging on about what a binding *means*, or what you want to prove. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite.
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