January 03, 2004

An Old Sentence

There,
They,
Were,
Yet,
Again,
Accordingly,
For,
Two,
Days,
More; When,
Strether,
On,
Being,
At,
Mrs. Pocock’s,
Hotel,
Ushered,
Into,
That,
Lady’s,
Salon,
Found,
Himself,
At,
First,
Assuming,
A,
Mistake,
On,
The,
Part,
Of,
The,
Servant,
Who,
Had,
Introduced,
Him,
And,
Retired. The,
Occupants,
Hadn’t,
Come,
In,
For,
The,
Room,
Looked,
Empty,
As,
Only,
A,
Room,
Can,
Look,
In,
Paris,
Of,
A,
Fine,
Afternoon,
When,
The,
Faint,
Murmur,
Of,
The,
Huge,
Collective,
Life,
Carried,
On,
Out,
Of,
Doors,
Strays,
Among,
Scattered,
Objects,
Even,
As,
A,
Summer,
Air,
Idles,
In,
A,
Lonely,
Garden. Our,
Friend,
Looked,
About,
And,
Hesitated; Observed,
On,
The,
Evidence,
Of,
A,
Table,
Charged,
With,
Purchases,
And,
Other,
Matters,
That,
Sarah,
Had,
Become,
Possessed—By,
No,
Aid,
From,
Him—Of,
The,
Last,
Number,
Of,
The,
Salmon-coloured,
Revue; Noted,
Further,
That,
Mamie,
Appeared,
To,
Have,
Received,
A,
Present,
Of,
Fromentin’s,
“Maitres,
d’Autrefois”,
From,
Chad,
Who,
Had,
Written,
Her,
Name,
On,
The,
Cover; And,
Pulled,
Up,
At,
The,
Sight,
Of,
A,
Heavy,
Letter,
Addressed,
In,
A,
Hand,
He,
Knew. This,
Letter,
Forwarded,
By,
A,
Banker,
And,
Arriving,
In,
Mrs. Pocock’s,
Absence,
Had,
Been,
Placed,
In,
Evidence,
And,
It,
Drew,
From,
The,
Fact,
Of,
Its,
Being,
Unopened,
A,
Sudden,
Queer,
Power,
To,
Intensify,
The,
Reach,
Of,
Its,
Author. It,
Brought,
Home,
To,
Him,
The,
Scale,
On,
Which,
Mrs. Newsome—For,
She,
Had,
Been,
Copious,
Indeed,
This,
Time—Was,
Writing,
To,
Her,
Daughter,
While,
She,
Kept,
Him,
In,
Durance; And,
It,
Had,
Altogether,
Such,
An,
Effect,
Upon,
Him,
As,
Made,
Him,
For,
A,
Few,
Minutes,
Stand,
Still,
And,
Breathe,
Low.

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Comments

I want to put periods wherever you have commas here.


Ron

Posted by: Ron Silliman at January 4, 2004 11:19 AM

I want to put periods wherever you have commas here.


Ron

Posted by: Ron Silliman at January 4, 2004 11:19 AM

I want to put periods wherever you have commas here.


Ron

Posted by: Ron Silliman at January 4, 2004 11:19 AM

This 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: James at January 19, 2004 01:58 AM

Each Stack Frame represents a function. The bottom frame is always the main function, and the frames above it are the other functions that main calls. At any given time, the stack can show you the path your code has taken to get to where it is. The top frame represents the function the code is currently executing, and the frame below it is the function that called the current function, and the frame below that represents the function that called the function that called the current function, and so on all the way down to main, which is the starting point of any C program.

Posted by: Rose at January 19, 2004 01:58 AM

This 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: John at January 19, 2004 01:58 AM

Seth Roby graduated in May of 2003 with a double major in English and Computer Science, the Macintosh part of a three-person Macintosh, Linux, and Windows graduating triumvirate.

Posted by: Griffin at January 19, 2004 01:59 AM

Note first that favoriteNumbers type changed. Instead of our familiar int, we're now using int*. The asterisk here is an operator, which is often called the "star operator". You will remember that we also use an asterisk as a sign for multiplication. The positioning of the asterisk changes its meaning. This operator effectively means "this is a pointer". Here it says that favoriteNumber will be not an int but a pointer to an int. And instead of simply going on to say what we're putting in that int, we have to take an extra step and create the space, which is what does. This function takes an argument that specifies how much space you need and then returns a pointer to that space. We've passed it the result of another function, , which we pass int, a type. In reality, is a macro, but for now we don't have to care: all we need to know is that it tells us the size of whatever we gave it, in this case an int. So when is done, it gives us an address in the heap where we can put an integer. It is important to remember that the data is stored in the heap, while the address of that data is stored in a pointer on the stack.

Posted by: Laura at January 19, 2004 02:00 AM