Marshall wrote:
> I would propose that variables have identity, and values do not.
> In part this is via the supplied definition of identity, in which, when
> you change one thing, if something else changes as well, they
> share identity.
Maybe you gave a better definition the first time, but this one doesn't
really hold up.
> of equality here is too narrow; it is only necessary to show that
> two things both change, not that they change in the same way.)
If I change X, then Y[X] changes also. I don't think X is identical to Y
or Y[X], nor is it an alias of either. I think that's where the
equality comes into it.
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