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Subject: Re: Terminology: "reference" versus "pointer"
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On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Gregory Ewing
<greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Emile van Sebille wrote:
>
>> Shroedingers-cat-was-just-a-cat-in-a-box-too-ly y'rs,
>
>
> The real question is, if you kill Schroedinger's cat, does
> Heisenberg's cat die too? If so, then either they're the
> same cat, or they're two entangled cats.
>
> This suggests an alternative model for Python computation.
> All data is represented by cats. A variable is a box
> containing a cat. Assignment replaces one cat with an
> entangled copy of another cat, so that mutating either
> one affects the other.

Quantum computing is the way of the future!

ChrisA