In the whirl of activity that’s keeping me from losing vast amounts of ground to my mountain of obligations, I had let get away from me two points of interest regarding Britt Blaser. The first is that yesterday was his birthday, according to Doc, and I hope I look as good when I’m 61 as Britt does now. In fact, Britt probably constitutes an upgrade over how I look right now.
Second, a long time ago, Britt suggested that I check out The Right Christians. I needed a reminder because I hadn’t been back in too long. Allen Brill invited me around TRC when he first started it up; it looked cool, but a little sparse, and I have a hard enough time keeping up with my usual blogs that I didn’t come back very often, and eventually forgot to come back at all. Then Britt prodded me, and lo and behold, the site has gotten going. While the TRC team and I differ on a number of issues — on the whole, I get the sense that they’re classic theological liberals, and proud of it — it really is a remarkable site, strong and bold and firm liberal theologizing. Happy birthday to Britt, and cheers to Allen Brill and The Right Christians for keeping the torch aloft.
Posted by AKMA at October 28, 2003 10:45 PM | TrackBackThanks for the nice link!
Posted by: Allen at October 31, 2003 01:36 PMInside each stack frame is a slew of useful information. It tells the computer what code is currently executing, where to go next, where to go in the case a return statement is found, and a whole lot of other things that are incredible useful to the computer, but not very useful to you most of the time. One of the things that is useful to you is the part of the frame that keeps track of all the variables you're using. So the first place for a variable to live is on the Stack. This is a very nice place to live, in that all the creation and destruction of space is handled for you as Stack Frames are created and destroyed. You seldom have to worry about making space for the variables on the stack. The only problem is that the variables here only live as long as the stack frame does, which is to say the length of the function those variables are declared in. This is often a fine situation, but when you need to store information for longer than a single function, you are instantly out of luck.
Posted by: Edith at January 13, 2004 09:32 AMEarlier I mentioned that variables can live in two different places. We're going to examine these two places one at a time, and we're going to start on the more familiar ground, which is called the Stack. Understanding the stack helps us understand the way programs run, and also helps us understand scope a little better.
Posted by: Richard at January 13, 2004 09:32 AMLet'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: Gervase at January 13, 2004 09:32 AM