Right. Ivan On Feb 25, 2011, at 18:19 , Sandro Hawke wrote: > On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 17:30 +0100, Ivan Herman wrote: >> >> Another way of putting it is that a g-text is a special form of a >> g-box, which has the peculiarity of representing a g-snap in a text >> file. > > No, a g-text is not a special form of a g-box. A g-text is a fixed > sequence of characters or bytes; a g-box is a potentially-mutable > collection. If two g-texts are the same sequence, they are the same > g-text; that's not at all true of g-boxes. > > In a low-level language, like assembly or C, g-box would be some area of > memory, while a g-text would be some values that might be stored in that > memory. > > Computer files are boxes, not texts, in this terminology -- they can > change, and they have an identity separate from their contents. > > -- Sandro > > > > > ---- Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ mobile: +31-641044153 PGP Key: http://www.ivan-herman.net/pgpkey.html FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf
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