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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
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Subject: Re: Epistemology [was: Bit operations in Ada (one's complements and
 sum)]
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 20:18:51 GMT
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In article <8pchk8$co01k$1@ID-25716.news.cis.dfn.de>,
  "Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@callnetuk.com> wrote:
> Second, forgive my musing on this subject, but it did just
> flicker across my mind, that a 'bit string' is indeed a kind
> of string, but ... it's also a set, but ... it's also an
> integer, but ... it's also a JPEG picture, but ... well, you
> get the idea. Things are not what they are, are they? Just a
> thought.

Sounds like you have rediscovered the fundamental and important
distinction between storage structures and data structures :-)


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