Re: Is that really a bug at all? (was: Re: Ugly bug in Foundation, beware!)
Re: Is that really a bug at all? (was: Re: Ugly bug in Foundation, beware!)
- Subject: Re: Is that really a bug at all? (was: Re: Ugly bug in Foundation, beware!)
- From: Brent Gulanowski <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 11:27:13 -0400
On Jun 3, 2004, at 8:12 PM, Marcel Weiher wrote:
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On 4 Jun 2004, at 00:21, Philippe Mougin wrote:
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> > If I make a copy of something, the copy won't change
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> > when the original changes. If the original contained
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> > something (say, a newspaper with images),
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> > the contents of the copy does not change when
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> > the contents of the original changes. That's
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> > why it is called a *copy*.
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> Yes, but a newspaper with images does not hold references to external
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> things.
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> I think a more appropriate analogy would be, for instance, my car
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> insurance certificate. It contains a reference to my car (i.e., a
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> small set of alphanumeric characters that uniquely identify my car).
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> When I do a reproduction of my insurance certificate using a
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> photocopier, the copy has the same content as the original: they both
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> refer to the same car. The car itself is not duplicated (that would
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> be quite cool but this is another story).
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>
Well, it would be cool if you could make copies of your car that
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simply (especially if you could make improvements in the process ;-).
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However, it would be terrible if, in turn, you couldn't make a copy of
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an insurance certificate without making a new car. Because then you
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could never have more than one insurance certificate for the same car,
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it would always be referring to a new/different car!
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(Unless of course, it is a special immutable car that you cannot
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drive, get into or out of, fuel up or repair)
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None of these are remotely helping. Computer programming language
details cannot be captured in analogies, so don't fall into that trap.
They only confuse the issue. If you have the proper technical language,
please use it. Save the analogies for the non-specialists who simply
cannot understand the technical terms.
--
Brent Gulanowski email@hidden
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