As I was sleeping late in my idiosyncratic way (turn on a news station, NPR or CNN, and drift in and out of sleep as droning voices waft over and around you), the phone rang and Michael, suggested that we have breakfast together. I had talked with him last night on Joi Ito’s IRC channel, and thought we probably wouldn’t have a chance to connect — but Michael picked me up and we had a long, rambling breakfast conversation at IHOP.
He, working at Disney, and I, working for the church, had a lot to exchange about tradition, continuity, and change. I’ll be thinking along with him, enriched and provoked by his ideas, for a long time — and we demonstrated yet again that online acquaintance and friendship are no less “real” than their physical-world counterparts.
Posted by AKMA at December 15, 2003 12:31 PM | TrackBackNote the new asterisks whenever we reference favoriteNumber, except for that new line right before the return.
Posted by: Martha at January 13, 2004 10:26 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: Walter at January 13, 2004 10:26 AMThe rest of our conversion follows a similar vein. Instead of going through line by line, let's just compare end results: when the transition is complete, the code that used to read:
Posted by: Marmaduke at January 13, 2004 10:27 AM