There is of course, in human affairs, the issue of intent. If you
accidentally-on-purpose destroyed the only extant copy of a contract,
then it would require adjudication which you might win!
Frank
On Apr 20, 2005, at 2:22 PM, Duane Nickull wrote:
> Frank:
>
> Thank you for this analogy (ink over the representation). I think
> this is a valuable analogy for understanding abstract elements and
> their relationships to concrete implementations.
>
> Duane
>
> Francis McCabe wrote:
>
>> Think of human contracts: if you sign a contract, and then
>> accidentally pour some ink over the paper that you signed; you still
>> have a contract. All that the ink did was destroy the representation
>> of the contract.
>>
>> This is what I meant earlier about UML -- it strongly encourages
>> people to think in terms of specialization. But that is not the only
>> relationship of interest.
>>
>> Frank
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