At 06:39 PM 10/24/01 +0100, Brian McBride wrote: >I would agree that having two size properties doesn't change the meaning >in this case, but if I'm paying extra money to store or process them, then >it matters to me. Ah, implementation details ;-) In such a case I think that you would pay for a superior implementation that is able to recognize the equivalence (through knowledge of the data typing) and only store the information once -- possibly selecting a canonical form -- on the basis that this entails all the other forms that might be used, assuming the data typing is the same in all interpretations considered to be models. #g ------------------------------------------------------------ Graham Klyne MIMEsweeper Group Strategic Research <http://www.mimesweeper.com> <Graham.Klyne@MIMEsweeper.com> ------------------------------------------------------------Received on Wednesday, 24 October 2001 18:56:09 EDT
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