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Re: lectures about "programming methodology"

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From	Sven Köhler <remove-sven.koehler@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: lectures about "programming methodology"
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On 05/07/2013 03:45 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Sven Köhler <remove-sven.koehler@gmail.com> writes:
>> BTW: It is also possible to defend his description of the scope, namely
>> if you limit it to local variables only (Stefan's counter example was a
>
>    For local variables the two concepts differ too. One example
>    can already be seen in my code, when one reads the local
>    parameter »i« as a local variable. The most famous example
>    is the factorial (untested):
>
> int f( final int i ){ return i == 0 ? 1 : i * f( i - 1 ); }
>
>    . To understand this, it is vital to understand that »i« has
>    only a single scope, but can have many (in this case:
>    nested) lifetimes.

That is correct. But then again, I'm not sure how this professor will 
explain it. To be consistent with his definition of scope, he might 
explain to the students, that there are many "incarnations" of i, each 
"living" from the { to the }, i.e. the scope. In his way of thinking, 
this might be consistent with saying that the scope defines the lifetime 
of i (namely each incarnation of i).

Regards,
   Sven

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Re: lectures about "programming methodology" Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-05-06 21:46 -0400
  Re: lectures about "programming methodology" Sven Köhler <remove-sven.koehler@gmail.com> - 2013-05-07 13:45 +0300
    Re: lectures about "programming methodology" Sven Köhler <remove-sven.koehler@gmail.com> - 2013-05-07 15:52 +0300
    Re: lectures about "programming methodology" markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-05-07 09:44 -0700
    Re: lectures about "programming methodology" Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-05-07 21:37 -0400
  Re: lectures about "programming methodology" David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2013-05-07 18:10 -0400
    Re: lectures about "programming methodology" Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-05-07 21:38 -0400
      Re: lectures about "programming methodology" Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-05-08 17:48 -0300
        Re: lectures about "programming methodology" Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-05-12 22:17 -0400
          Re: lectures about "programming methodology" Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-05-17 19:35 -0300
            Re: lectures about "programming methodology" Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-05-17 18:53 -0400
              Re: lectures about "programming methodology" Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-05-17 19:02 -0400
                Re: lectures about "programming methodology" Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-05-17 20:14 -0300
                Re: lectures about "programming methodology" Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-05-17 19:29 -0400
                Re: lectures about "programming methodology" lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-05-18 11:07 +0100

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