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The question remains: how can something that does not exist contain anything?
by gpvos 2y ago
The question remains: how can something that does not exist contain anything?
- mewpmewp2 2y agoThe message object used to contain those contents, but then the message object was deleted, although the contents value was still available in a UI in temporary memory.
- tempodox 2y agoI speaks to Microsoft's creativity that they are able to redefine logic that far.
- IsTom 2y agoThe sane will tell you that Necronomicon doesn't exist in our world, yet we have a vague idea of what it contains and we're sure that it contains only the most repulsive of things.
- jcparkyn 2y agoWell somebody had better discard it now, lest it start existing at some point in the future.
- fweimer 2y agoExample: You are editing a table row with some application, but when you try to save the changes, the system discovered that the row has been deleted from the table. The business logic does not permit you to create rows arbitrarily, so a new row cannot be inserted instead of updating existing one. The behavior admittedly does not make sense for files (although I suppose you could rename or delete the directory that contains it), but it's sort of unavoidable if you don't want to take locks while some client application you don't control may or may not make changes.
- gpvos 2y agoYes, I already could imagine that. I meant the question more in a philosophical sense.