I’m late to point to Mitch Ratcliffe’s ”Invisible Dogma,” but I wanted to get there even if late; I hope I’ll have a chance to respond to his very sharp account of tools and impediments and organizations and thinking, and I still want to put in my ha’penny on truth and lie in a blogging sense (linking to David because that’s where all roads lead). Had good conversations today with Ross Wagner, a colleague at Princeton Seminary (and we ran into Brian Blount also), with Juliet, and reading Gary Klein’s book Sources of Power (with a view toward teaching pastoral practice at Seabury.
Tomorrow will be a travel day, up to Rochester to see Nate (just an overnight, no extra time to call or visit Liz, sad to say).
Posted by AKMA at April 22, 2003 03:47 PM | TrackBackLet's see an example by converting our favoriteNumber variable from a stack variable to a heap variable. The first thing we'll do is find the project we've been working on and open it up in Project Builder. In the file, we'll start right at the top and work our way down. Under the line:
Posted by: Court at January 13, 2004 10:52 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: Osmund at January 13, 2004 10:52 AMBut 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: Edwin at January 13, 2004 10:53 AM