The Happy Tutor challenges me to write about authority after my adventures in the lands of forgiveness, identity, authenticity, postmodernism, and so on. It’s a deal—but not for a few days, as I’m in the middle of a multi-day Anti-Racism Training program, and have to preach tomorrow. But the topic fascinates me, and is one that Margaret intends to tackle in her own scholarly work one of these days. I’ll come back to this.
Posted by AKMA at January 25, 2003 08:10 AM | TrackBackBut some variables are immortal. These variables are declared outside of blocks, outside of functions. Since they don't have a block to exist in they are called global variables (as opposed to local variables), because they exist in all blocks, everywhere, and they never go out of scope. Although powerful, these kinds of variables are generally frowned upon because they encourage bad program design.
Posted by: Christian at January 13, 2004 09:37 AMWhen the machine compiles your code, however, it does a little bit of translation. At run time, the computer sees nothing but 1s and 0s, which is all the computer ever sees: a continuous string of binary numbers that it can interpret in various ways.
Posted by: Pompey at January 13, 2004 09:37 AMWhen compared to the Stack, the Heap is a simple thing to understand. All the memory that's left over is "in the Heap" (excepting some special cases and some reserve). There is little structure, but in return for this freedom of movement you must create and destroy any boundaries you need. And it is always possible that the heap might simply not have enough space for you.
Posted by: Basil at January 13, 2004 09:37 AM