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Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> writes:

>> Your "rule of three" is supported by theory?  Please elaborate.
>> 
> I've explained it before.
>
> Essentially dimensions in space, levels of pointer dereferencing, and levels
> of nesting are the same thing in different guises or forms of notation.
> And we live in a world with three dimensions of space, we can visualise
> three.

"Being explained by theory" is not synonymous with "Being explained by a theory"