Tomorrow morning, Monday, February 17, 2003, you will find a quarter-page ad from Poets Against the War on the Op Ed page of the New York Times. This ad was paid for by the many of you who sent contributions, and we thank you for allowing our collective voice to be heard. The ad is endorsed by two dozen of America's most influential and best-known poets, and it is signed in all our names, "Thousands of poets, one voice."
We continue to accept submissions of anti-war poems and statements. Please check the website for updates, for the latest information about readings and to enjoy the amazing anthology which is the heart and soul of Poets Against the War. You can now search the collection by poet's name, poem title and poet's location.
We continue to accept donations, as well. In addition to the New York Times ad, our future plans include coordinating a series of regional poetry readings in cities around the U.S., so that we may continue to bring attention to our cause. We are also producing a documentary about the Poets Against the War phenomenon and the readings that occurred in 160 cities on February 12, International Poetry Against the War Day. And I am currently editing a book of poems and statements selected from the website that will be published by The Nation in April.
Please click this link to donate to Poets Against the War, or you can send a check to: Poets Against the War, Box 1614, Port Townsend, WA 98368.
The many volunteers at PAW--designers, editors, developers, and support staff--all join me in expressing our profound gratitude to you for your moral and financial support, your wonderful letters of encouragement and, most especially, your poems. As we sort and post your work to the website, we are, all of us, very moved by what we read, moved sometimes to tears, moved more than we can say.
Peace,
Sam Hamill for Poets Against the War.
Earlier 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: Lewis on January 18, 2004 10:32 PMThese 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: Gartheride on January 18, 2004 10:32 PMWhen the machine compiles your code, however, it does a little bit of translation. At run time, the computer sees nothing but 1s and 0s, which is all the computer ever sees: a continuous string of binary numbers that it can interpret in various ways.
Posted by: Garret on January 18, 2004 10:33 PMThis code should compile and run just fine, and you should see no changes in how the program works. So why did we do all of that?
Posted by: Morgan on January 18, 2004 10:34 PMNote the new asterisks whenever we reference favoriteNumber, except for that new line right before the return.
Posted by: Tristram on January 18, 2004 10:34 PM