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Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 22:37:41 +1100
Subject: Re: Explanation of list reference
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Gregory Ewing
<greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> 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!"

Make it so, Number One.

ChrisA