@Ilya Ehrenburg said:
@bstorer said:
Not for me. I continue to check all the other drawers after finding it, just in case.Admission of guilt? Or are you just paranoid?
I call it being thorough. Everyone assumes that objects in the universe only exist in one place, but how will we ever know for sure if we always give up looking for more instances after we've found just the first one?
Perhaps the universe's code does something like this:
Object lostObject = // some lost object
Drawers[drawerIndex].add(lostObject);
Drawers[drawerIndex+1].add(lostObject); // ha ha, they'll never think to look for it in the next drawer.
This also supports my theory of why people "lose" socks in the laundry. A pair of socks is really just 2 references to the same instance of sock. When you put them in the laundry sometimes the universe's garbage collector will clean up one of the references.