From: progers@acm.org (Pat Rogers)
Subject: Re: private and limited private
Date: 1996/10/15
Date: 1996-10-15T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <540739$dhh@uuneo.neosoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 53vmmb$560@saturn.brighton.ac.uk
In <53vmmb$560@saturn.brighton.ac.uk>, je@bton.ac.uk (John English) writes:
>Samuel Mize (smize@imagin.net) wrote:
[snip]
>Actually, playing cards would be better represented by a limited type
>with a Move (as opposed to a Copy) primitive, since in the real world
>you move cards from A to B, you don't *copy* them. If you allow
>assignment, you allow the creation of as many copies of the Ace of
>Spades (or whatever) that you like. From watching Westerns, I gather
>that most people frown on this and fill you with lead/break tables
>over your head/whatever if you're caught doing it.
Yes, it is almost as bad as stealing someone's horse. (Said with a perfectly
straight face.)
pat
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Patrick Rogers
progers@acm.org
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-08 0:00 private and limited private AGBOH CHARLES
1996-10-10 0:00 ` David Kirkland
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-10-11 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1996-10-15 0:00 ` John English
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Pat Rogers [this message]
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1996-10-21 0:00 ` John English
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