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- Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 20:02:34 +0000
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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=26958 --- Comment #9 from Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> --- I think the key feature of the property we have been calling "identity" is that it is associated with things that have a life-history: a creation event, often followed by mutation, and finally destruction. For such things, identity is established by the creation event, and two things with different history are not identical even if their properties are otherwise the same. Integers do not have a life-history; documents do. The corrollory is the existence of constructors which are not pure functions because each invocation returns a distinct thing. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the QA Contact for the bug.
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