Re: Variable Ponderance
Re: Variable Ponderance
- Subject: Re: Variable Ponderance
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 10:42:41 -0600
At 01:38 -0700 10/3/04, Chris Page wrote:
A bunch of good stuff and then:
>Calling a function with a value makes the argument in the function refer to that object.
>That's it.
Perhaps I am beginning to understand. AppleScript is like FORTRAN - the compiler as it was before it acquired suffixes like IV and 60 and 77. In that language you gave a memory location a name and when you used that name the compiler knew you were referring to that location.
With the advent of stack oriented hardware, a specialized "jump to subroutine" call with a pushed return address, and a perceived need for recursive routines the concept of "call by value" was born. Much of my FORTRAN code had to be rewritten for the new machines and I spent hours screwing with "rolls" on a CDC 3100.
I'm going to start thinking the old way and see if things get easier.
But then, when I ran a FORTRAN program on Tuesday I never expected to find the variables I set on Monday.
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