On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Sean Hunt <scsh...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> On 09/17/2010 01:05 PM, com...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> Gratuitous: The interpretation suggested by the caller is absurd.
>
> Would you prefer the interpretation that the list published in the message
> was rearranged to match the List of Succession.

The meaning of "A becomes B" can depend on context.  Although "A
becomes B" usually means "A is set to B", if A is naturally immutable
and B is naturally mutable, the obviously correct reading is "B is set
to A".

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