<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><p>On Aug 29, 2012 10:56 PM, "Henk-Jan van Tuyl" <<a href="mailto:hjgtuyl@chello.nl" target="_blank">hjgtuyl@chello.nl</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:10:24 +0200, Stefan Monnier <<a href="mailto:monnier@iro.umontreal.ca" target="_blank">monnier@iro.umontreal.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
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>>> Albert Einstein said:<br>
>>> Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting<br>
>>> different results.<br>
>>> I repeated the command today and it worked!<br>
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>> So, did you expect the result to be different, or did you re-try just to<br>
>> confirm that it doesn't work?<br>
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> The day after I tried the command the first time, I thought the result might be different; I have the experience that my browser crashes, and starting it again results in an immediate crash. Logging off and on again solves the problem. This might be because of a corrupted DLL or a corrupted data area of a DLL.<br>
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> The command failure could have also been caused by a problem at the server side.<br>
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> In conclusion: repeating the same thing could give different results.</p>
</div><p>This depends on what counts as "the same". (There is a nice book called "The Subtlety of Sameness".) I'm surprised that as users of a language that makes a big deal out of referential transparency none of you have said that neither invoking the same command at a different time nor invoking a browser after changing context (logging in again) is doing the same thing.</p>
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