Anthony Lorelli"Why can't a dog simulate pain? Is he too honest?" -Wittgenstein(Untitled)- September 16, 2002 The most obvious application of noun inflection in programming language design - so obvious that I missed it until tonight - is as a replacement for the idea of scope. If I have two variables with the same name, how do I determine which one is used when I refer to it Generally this is governed by some sort of scoping convention included in the lanugage, the two most common being lexical and dynamic. Using inflection suggests changing the form of the variable name to indicate which verb...http://radio.weblogs.com/0105841/2002/09/15.html#a224 (Untitled)- September 12, 2002 Goo - a descendant of Scheme and Dylanhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0105841/2002/09/12.html#a223 (Untitled)- September 11, 2002 My wife and I had just moved into our new house. I was still sleeping when my father-in-law called around 7:00 am to tell us what had happened. We didn't have cable yet, so we listened to the local NPR station on the radio.http://radio.weblogs.com/0105841/2002/09/11.html#a222 (Untitled)- September 6, 2002 Putting in a new lawn this weekend. Expect pictures of gas-powered equipment to appear soon.http://radio.weblogs.com/0105841/2002/09/06.html#a221 (Untitled)- September 5, 2002 ziplib (SharpZipLib, formerly NZipLib): a zip, gzip, tar and bzip2 library written in Chttp://radio.weblogs.com/0105841/2002/09/05.html#a220 |