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Especially merlyn's answers about having to make a mnemonic for the nameable but unstoreable object, then storing the name as a hash key.

Huh? When did I say that?

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Re^3: When I count, I think of numbers as... by talexb (Chancellor) on Jun 07, 2005 at 15:25 UTC
You were talking about having to describe a dance move to yourself ("Put right hand on hip") rather than being able to imitate it by watching it while someone else did it. Thus, I inferred that you could not store the move itself, but by naming the move, you were able to store and retrieve it properly. I may be guilty of trying to be too clever. :( Alex / talexb / Toronto "Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds	[reply]

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Re^3: When I count, I think of numbers as...
by talexb (Chancellor) on Jun 07, 2005 at 15:25 UTC

You were talking about having to describe a dance move to yourself ("Put right hand on hip") rather than being able to imitate it by watching it while someone else did it. Thus, I inferred that you could not store the move itself, but by naming the move, you were able to store and retrieve it properly. I may be guilty of trying to be too clever. :(

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