[cap-talk] Impossibility vs infeasibility (was: Confused Deputy & Paradigm Regained homework at MIT)

[Ka-Ping Yee]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, David Hopwood wrote:
> Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
> > Mark's illustration of the
> > impossibility of a safe observer pattern in Java is straightforward and
> > devastating.)
>
> Careful about calling things impossible.

Yes, well taken.  I hereby retract "impossibility" and replace it with,
say, "absurdly extreme difficulty".


-- ?!ng