I get nostaligic for Fortran 77's columns.
I'm not sure functions are analogous to metaphor, however I see your
definitions are suitably loose-binding.
Have you seen http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/ ?
returns 3.
Roger
On 11/15/06, meika vonsamorzewski <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In a lot of programming languages parentheses are used a huge amount as one would expect from their use in algebra.
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> One use
> {
> besides the bracketing of a functions method
> }
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> is to pass arguments (values) to a function.
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> Traditionally in examples of code the function "foo" is used.
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> int foo (a, b, c)
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> In the above examples three values are passed to 'foo' and an integer (int) is return to the program (or another function) that called it.
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> If 'foo's function was to add 'a' to 'b' and multiple the result to the power 'c' the following values passed as arguments to 'foo'--
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> foo (2,3,2)
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> would return the integer 25.
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> Interestingly (or not) such functions can also be 'overloaded'. And be used much like a metaphor.
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> In my code poems (yes, this is what I am really writing in about) I have overloaded the 'date' function.
>
> example at
> http://meika.loofs-samorzewski.com/codepoems.html
>
> Which is a chapter of the following book I'll be self publishing via the Lulu.com POD publisher on Feb 28 2007.
>
> And you can also download the PDF review copy of the entire book via
> http://meika.loofs-samorzewski.com/beforecountry.html
>
> Don't worry, the code poems are more exploded prose poems than code, but I like the idea of overloading functions, and so I pass various 'arguments' to the overloaded 'date' function which then try to process them, though I don't know if they return anything.
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> Let me know.
>
> And if anyone has any suggestions as to where I could send review (hard) copies with this work that has haunted me for nearly 20 years please advise.
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> cheers
>
> meika
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