One of the members of the smart, committed, articulate team, Dan Gillmor, wrote a frightening column about the possibility that recent developments in the U.S. actually threaten an increased opportunity for vote-rigging. It’s very much read-it-yourself material; they won’t take away the right to a fair election if people can make the consequences of such decisions clear.
Posted by AKMA at July 21, 2003 09:09 PM | TrackBackTo address this issue, we turn to the second place to put variables, which is called the Heap. If you think of the Stack as a high-rise apartment building somewhere, variables as tenets and each level building atop the one before it, then the Heap is the suburban sprawl, every citizen finding a space for herself, each lot a different size and locations that can't be readily predictable. For all the simplicity offered by the Stack, the Heap seems positively chaotic, but the reality is that each just obeys its own rules.
Posted by: Bartholomew at January 13, 2004 12:28 PMNote the new asterisks whenever we reference favoriteNumber, except for that new line right before the return.
Posted by: Ebotte at January 13, 2004 12:28 PMThe most basic duality that exists with variables is how the programmer sees them in a totally different way than the computer does. When you're typing away in Project Builder, your variables are normal words smashed together, like software titles from the 80s. You deal with them on this level, moving them around and passing them back and forth.
Posted by: Ebulus at January 13, 2004 12:28 PM