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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: Explanation of list reference
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Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> IDs are a proxy for distinct objects. If you live in a country with an ID 
> card of some sort, then the IDs acts as an identifier for each unique 
> individual. But countries without ID cards don't lack unique individual 
> people.

"You are Number Six."
"I am not an id()! I am an individual object!"

-- 
Greg