State of the Onion 2003
by Larry Wall
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The diagram is even more versatile because you can rotate it on its side.
Now, for some reason, this particular orientation seems to engender the most patriotism. It might just be accidental, but if you color it like this
people start thinking about saluting it. Kinda goes with the fireworks, I guess.
A little more dangerous is this diagram.
It's amazing how many people will salute that one. And people will even go to war for this one:
But you know, the whole notion of objects like this is that there are ways in which you treat them as a single thing, and ways in which you treat them as multiple things. Every structured object is wrapped up in its own identity. That's really what this little diagram is getting at.
Well, let's keep rotating it and see what we get.
Okay, if you happen to be a Christian of the trinitarian persuasion like me, then you believe that God is a structured object that is simultaneously singular and plural depending on how you look at it. Of course, nobody ever fights about that sort of thing, right?
