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Re: Polysemy in programming langs (was: Why does the meaning of words change?)

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Sunday, April 18, 2004, 19:54
Ray Brown scripsit:

> >The same with instructions like: A = B, which in > >reality mean "copy B to A". > > Yep - copying the value of location B into location A is, of course, what > goes on in the computer & is probably how one would think of it at a low > level; in high level programming it's rather: > "variable A is assigned the value of variable B."
Except in linear logic, where you can only access the value of a variable once, and so "move" really is important. The resources on linear logic seem to be a bit scattered: those interested should google for it. -- Business before pleasure, if not too bloomering long before. --Nicholas van Rijn John Cowan <jcowan@...> http://www.ccil.org/~cowan http://www.reutershealth.com