Mark Janssen wrote: > A unified data model as I define it, specifies a canonical atomic unit > (like the unit integer) and an abstract grouping construct in which > these atomic units can be arranged. By themselves, these two can > construct arbitrary levels of data structure complexity. Add the > ability to apply names to these levels, and you have a complete data > model for a happy programming environment. My work, to give you some > context, involves the invention of a "fractal graph" which is where > the name "unified object model" came from, because a fractal graph, I > argue can represent every part of the physical world at every scale.
How can you breathe *way* up there in space? http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html P.S. not all phenomena are fractal. The elbow joint, for instance, is just a hinge, and not made of smaller elbow joints made of tinier elbow joints made of even tinier elbow joints made of ... -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
