• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• To: Pete Cordell <petexmldev@c...>
• Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:33:12 -0500

Pete Cordell scripsit:

> But is that level of semantics helpful to a computer?  I'm not sure that  
> knowing that something is 32 the number, rather than "32" the string 
> would help me much with all the semantic inferencing I can do as a human. 
>  I would have thought its even less useful to a computer!

Au contraire, it tells you what object to store the value in, at least
in statically typed languages.

-- 
John Cowan  cowan@c...   http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
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Deus dedit dentes; deus dabit panem             --Latin version thereof
Deity donated dentition;
  deity'll donate doughnuts                     --English version by Muke Tever
God gave gums; God'll give granary              --Version by Mat McVeagh

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