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[Ian Fitchet]
> From which follows, what does 7/5/2002 mean to you? Either we share
> some (date) context that it means 7th of May or it means July 5th.
> It doesn't matter how you represent it so long as we both know how to
> interpret it.
>
Yes, but who is "we"? If I'm American and you are French, we may have
frequent discrepancies. More to the point, if one or both of us is a
computer, how will it know how to interpret it? Well, you say, the
programmer knows. And if we want to have a variety of software agents doing
the interpretation? How do they know?
Cheers,
Tom P
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