Re: Examples in Docs, was Re: Escape Sequences in Strings

[mark_lundquist@my-deja.com]

We're in violent agreement :-)

Note how the analogy has to be set up so narrowly to remain valid, that
it ends up being useless.

Most analogies are useless anyway :-)... They're only helpful when
there's an underlying principle to illustrate that doesn't depend on
the analogy, and the illustration is strong enough not to be
compromised by the inevitable flaws of the analogy.

Reasoning by analogy was a hallmark of Midieval thought -- analogies
were advanced and accepted as proofs.

Analogies can still be a very useful creative thinking tool, though.

This is so pathetically OT, I will stop now :-)



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