On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 2:20 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok now rewrite that para above with > s/tuple/numbers like 3 or 666/ > So I put '3' on the ram and grind it to finest powder. > Have all trinities (of religious or secular variety) disappeared? > 666 gone has the devil been banished from God's (or Steven's) universe?
If you write down your phone number and give it to a girl you like, and she burns that piece of paper, do you no longer have a phone number? No, but she certainly doesn't have your phone number any more. There's a difference between destroying a representation and destroying the original entity. But Steven's point wasn't about how easy/hard it is to destroy something; it was about a tuple's immutability NOT being a prevention of its destruction, and therefore it's not that sense of the word in which they're immutable. Similarly, you could destroy a document on which God's laws are written (in the original dictionary sense; if you don't want to believe in immutable laws of a Deity, you can substitute in a law of physics - for instance, the law that two objects with mass exert a force of attraction on each other due to gravity), and it wouldn't destroy the law itself. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
