This image is from the second piece of pro-war spam I've received in two days; both were offers for crap-ass jingoistic t-shirts (presumably, this is what you wear while learning how to enlarge your penis, buy Viagra online and and invest in African pyramid schemes). I heartily recommend Spamsieve or any Bayesian filtering system for dealing with this problem (Bayesian filtering is built into the new Mac mail application) -- it kills spam dead.
Posted by Darren Wershler-Henry at March 27, 2003 02:28 PMEarlier 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: Bennett on January 19, 2004 04:17 AMBut variables get one benefit people do not
Posted by: Adlard on January 19, 2004 04:17 AMTo address this issue, we turn to the second place to put variables, which is called the Heap. If you think of the Stack as a high-rise apartment building somewhere, variables as tenets and each level building atop the one before it, then the Heap is the suburban sprawl, every citizen finding a space for herself, each lot a different size and locations that can't be readily predictable. For all the simplicity offered by the Stack, the Heap seems positively chaotic, but the reality is that each just obeys its own rules.
Posted by: Sampson on January 19, 2004 04:18 AMNote the new asterisks whenever we reference favoriteNumber, except for that new line right before the return.
Posted by: Annanias on January 19, 2004 04:20 AM