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james anderson scripsit: > [disonant exchange about types, as to be expected as no distinction was made > between lexical and value domains] It was just that distinction of which I was availing myself in denying that numbers (as opposed to numerals) are a subtype of strings. -- John Cowan jcowan@r... www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan "The exception proves the rule." Dimbulbs think: "Your counterexample proves my theory." Latin students think "'Probat' means 'tests': the exception puts the rule to the proof." But legal historians know it means "Evidence for an exception is evidence of the existence of a rule in cases not excepted from."
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