Another newbie question

[Mike Meyer]

Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVETHIScyber.com.au> writes:
> On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:56:12 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
>>> Really, I don't think this makes a good poster child for your "attribute
>>> mutators make life more difficult" campaign...;-)
>> The claim is that there exists cases where that's true. This cases
>> demonstrates the existence of such cases. That the sample is trivial
>> means the difficulty is trivial, so yeah, it's a miserable poster
>> child. But it's a perfectly adequate existence proof.
> Huh?
> As I see it:
> Claim: doing X makes Y hard.

Harder, not hard.

> Here is an example of doing X where Y is easy.

Y is very easy in any case. Making it incrementally harder doesn't
make it hard - it's still very easy.

> Perhaps I've missed some subtle meaning of the terms "demonstrates" and
> "existence proof".

I think you missed the original claim.

    <mike
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