Tripp will no doubt blog this also, but I’m a-getting there first. Today the United Library of Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary and Seabury-Western had its periodic book sale, and some of us went to town. (Don’t tell Jane.) I spent $52 for two boxes and two bags of really great books. All right, for a few really great books, and a bunch of plausible candidates. I found the two volumes of Charles’s Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, a number of commentaries, books about Matthew for the book I’m having trouble writing (maybe I should go see Adaptation again), about eight Greek New Testaments, some Modern and Everyman’s Library editions of favorite books, and sundry biblical and theological works. They’re charging a scant $1 for hardcovers, 50¢ for paperbacks, and the price goes down over the next few days. It’s an addiction, I know — but sweet. Hey, Trevor went, too!
Posted by AKMA at March 27, 2003 11:53 AM | TrackBackIt's okay, AKMA; we'll find homes for all your new toys, I promise.
Actually, as I've been the beneficiary recipient of some of your duplications and castoffs, I will be only too glad to help you make room! (^_^)
Posted by: Jane at March 27, 2003 12:40 PMYup, I got sucked into it too... I found a copy of Handel's Messiah choral edition in great condition!
Posted by: susie at March 27, 2003 05:14 PMSo, AKMA, is it possible to more than triple shelve your books in your office? We could call the pile Mt. Readmore. Or, perhaps, Mt. I-have-it-here-somewhere. How about AKMA's Random Book Shelf? :-)
I should talk, I made off with three hauls...
Posted by: Julie at March 28, 2003 07:48 PMThis code should compile and run just fine, and you should see no changes in how the program works. So why did we do all of that?
Posted by: Cesar at January 13, 2004 12:04 AMThis will allow us to use a few functions we didn't have access to before. These lines are still a mystery for now, but we'll explain them soon. Now we'll start working within the main function, where favoriteNumber is declared and used. The first thing we need to do is change how we declare the variable. Instead of
Posted by: Chroferus at January 13, 2004 12:05 AMThese secret identities serve a variety of purposes, and they help us to understand how variables work. In this lesson, we'll be writing a little less code than we've done in previous articles, but we'll be taking a detailed look at how variables live and work.
Posted by: Tristram at January 13, 2004 12:05 AMLet's take a moment to reexamine that. What we've done here is create two variables. The first variable is in the Heap, and we're storing data in it. That's the obvious one. But the second variable is a pointer to the first one, and it exists on the Stack. This variable is the one that's really called favoriteNumber, and it's the one we're working with. It is important to remember that there are now two parts to our simple variable, one of which exists in each world. This kind of division is common is C, but omnipresent in Cocoa. When you start making objects, Cocoa makes them all in the Heap because the Stack isn't big enough to hold them. In Cocoa, you deal with objects through pointers everywhere and are actually forbidden from dealing with them directly.
Posted by: Joseph at January 13, 2004 10:26 AMNote the new asterisks whenever we reference favoriteNumber, except for that new line right before the return.
Posted by: Thomasina at January 13, 2004 10:27 AMNote the new asterisks whenever we reference favoriteNumber, except for that new line right before the return.
Posted by: Archibald at January 13, 2004 10:27 AM