Late word from Pittsburgh is that my Dad is out of ICU/Recovery, in a regular ICU room. He’s doing well — off breathing tube — but still on a feeding tube, and still with an epidural. He’ll be getting home about the time we roll in to visit next weekend. Everyone else seems to be bearing up fine, too.
Take care, and I’ll try to look in from Pasadena.
Posted by AKMA at December 13, 2003 09:52 PM | TrackBackGlad to hear it. A great relief, I am sure.
Posted by: The Happy Tutor at December 14, 2003 12:26 PMGlad to hear everyone came through the experience relatively well. May you rest that much easier.
Posted by: Todd at December 14, 2003 09:31 PMWe can see an example of this in our code we've written so far. In each function's block, we declare variables that hold our data. When each function ends, the variables within are disposed of, and the space they were using is given back to the computer to use. The variables live in the blocks of conditionals and loops we write, but they don't cascade into functions we call, because those aren't sub-blocks, but different sections of code entirely. Every variable we've written has a well-defined lifetime of one function.
Posted by: Jasper at January 13, 2004 10:23 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: Henry at January 13, 2004 10:24 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: Clement at January 13, 2004 10:24 AM