On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 09:30:45AM +0000, Arnaud Delobelle wrote: > [...] > > If you like, you could think of the value of an object as the set of > > all possible values to which the object may evaluate in every possible > > context, given a particular state of the object. > > This definition looks a bit circular to me ;)
Why, because it has the word "value" in the definition? It's not circular. The thing being defined is "value of an object". The word "value" has a pre-existing well-understood natural language definition. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D
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