A question on modification of a list via a function invocation

Rhodri James rhodri at kynesim.co.uk
Wed Sep 6 09:53:07 EDT 2017


On 06/09/17 14:02, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> writes:
>> The 'is' operator tests if two things are the same thing.
> 
>        »Roughly speaking, to say of two things that they are
>        identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it
>        is identical with itself is to say nothing at all.«
> 
>      Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (5.5303)

Irrelevant.  We are talking about identity, not identicallity (to coin a 
word).  Or in plainer English, asking if two things are the same thing 
is not the same as asking if two things are identical.

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Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd



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