The variable-value is assigned to an immutable constant by copying memory; Java does it all the time.
As far as their not being objects or arrays, well, duh: constants are scalars.
That's begging the question, I'm afraid; see Java.
[Y]ou don't need type hinting for base types, because it's a magically typed language.
Then why introduce type-hinting this late in the game (PHP 5)? Zend violated their self-imposed directive of loose types, and did a half-ass job at that.
I rediscovered PHP last week after a year-long hiatus, and was surpised to find that it approacheth Java in reflection and information hiding; that said, there are some lamentable lacunæ:
Class constants must be string literals and only string literals (no variables, arrays or objects).
Type-hinting is confined to arrays and objects (feature?).
The unadorned output of phpDocumentor, PHP's analog to JavaDoc, is also suboptimal; for documenting PHP, therefore, go Doxygen.
Diversity is just a code word for institutionalized racism against white people.
I'm afraid you will have unleashed the rabid leucophobia (fear of Whites) on Slashdot, friend; there are two principles at work here: a self-destruct mechanism has been activated; the Bolsheviks have taken over.
The Supreme Court has established worrying precedents of late, preferring international to domestic law in the interpretation of our Constitution; there is a point, perhaps, where globalism impinges upon national sovereignty.
Likewise, as Eastern Europeans were forced to sing The International under the Bolsheviks on pain of death; our capitalist institutions seem hell-bent on destroying the last vestiges of provincial (domestic) accountability.
It's bizarre how, at their limits, capitalism approaches Bolshevism.
Poverty, squalor, repression and death walk hand in hand with Marx, everywhere his repellent ideas go.
Thanks, had to add you to my friends' list for that violent veritas; methinks these fledgling Anglo-Saxon Bolsheviki could learn a thing or two from the twentieth century.
There's nothing new about "privacy" or "geek" and there's nothing particular special about using the two words together.
Point taken; neoepithet (to coin a neologism), or the novel concatenation of predicate and noun, would be more germane. You'll notice, however, that, according to the OED, "word or phrase" falls under the purview of neologism.
As of this writing, “privacy geek” appears only 500 times in Google; my prognosis is: "privacy geek" will create a new taxonomy of people that “take privacy seriously,” as opposed to the public.
It's that creative aspect which is the neo- in neologism.
Students of Greek; neologism is actually a bit of a misnomer, though, since we're talking about the novel combination of predicate and noun. "Neo-epithet" would do the trick, but then I'm guilty of neologism.
"Privacy Geek" might also refer to someone who is an objective intellect simply studying the technical details of privacy laws as they pertain to todays digital culture.
It might; but the article touts making "anonymous browsing easy enough for everyone:" so they're clearly talking about the demos, or trough.
The idea that one might live one's life in private and without fear of molestation is a *very* recent phenomenon.
Interesting; two points come to mind in defense of your thesis: a) the Kantian and b) the Plautine interpretation of privacy, which is above all a republican interpretation.
Den Privatgebrauch nenne ich denjenigen, den er in einem gewissen ihm anvertrauten bürgerlichen Posten oder Amte von seiner Vernunft machen darf.
“I call privacy that usage of reason a man may make from within his public office.”
and Plautus' Captiui (“The Captives”):
Is privatam seruitutem seruit illi an publicam?
“Doesn't a man that performs his private office also serve the republic?”
The fusion of public and private life makes less sense in a democracy, however, where the autonomous individual must vie against a jealous state; and with billion dollar campaign expenses in America, the transition from democracy to republic is all but complete.
That America, perhaps, was never a democracy but always a republic, implies that we've never entertained democratic notions of privacy.
Classic; sendmail is in the ablative, actually. It so happens, though, that the ablative is invisible in English.
Sendmail, by the way, is missitabella in Latin; but I'm afraid cum missitabella isn't any more visible.
And finally, do you really think it's a good idea to use a Latin word which most English speakers, especially on Slashdot, will associate with sex?
That was at least part of my pregnant intent.;)
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The problem with the micropayment- or trusted-sender-model seems to be: What stops someone from setting up pop3 cum sendmail and ignoring the illicit contract?
Gates and co. would have to have an effective monopoly on email traffic for that to work. (Which might have been conceivable before the advent of Gmail, by the way.)
Balkanize v., to divide (a region) into a number of smaller and often mutually hostile units, as was done in the Balkan Peninsula in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Meaning that, as certain orthodox languages become entrenched, the software industry becomes fractured along the lines of said languages; and the radicalization of which factions pushes out moderates (in this case, C++).
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Does a C++ compiler produce a slower run-time [...].
Not necessarily; but the elegance of feral C where OO is superfluous may save developer time.
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We're witnessing, I believe, the Balkanization of the software industry, where hybrids like C++ are being edged out; the ultimate trend: C where speed counts, and, for everything else, Java.
Though it were hard for me to imagine, for instance, Unreal's engine being ported to Java, Quake seems to have fared well with feral C.
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- Class constants must be string literals and only string literals (no variables, arrays or objects).
- Type-hinting is confined to arrays and objects (feature?).
The unadorned output of phpDocumentor, PHP's analog to JavaDoc, is also suboptimal; for documenting PHP, therefore, go Doxygen.“Democracy,” too, was a catchphrase of Communist tyranny; whither our democracies appear to be degenerating.
HAND.
Likewise, as Eastern Europeans were forced to sing The International under the Bolsheviks on pain of death; our capitalist institutions seem hell-bent on destroying the last vestiges of provincial (domestic) accountability.
It's bizarre how, at their limits, capitalism approaches Bolshevism.
Just like voice and proximity have something over email, there's a kind of concretion in the physical missal.
As of this writing, “privacy geek” appears only 500 times in Google; my prognosis is: "privacy geek" will create a new taxonomy of people that “take privacy seriously,” as opposed to the public.
It's that creative aspect which is the neo- in neologism.
From Kant's Was ist Aufklärung? (“What is Enlightenment?”):
and Plautus' Captiui (“The Captives”):The fusion of public and private life makes less sense in a democracy, however, where the autonomous individual must vie against a jealous state; and with billion dollar campaign expenses in America, the transition from democracy to republic is all but complete.That America, perhaps, was never a democracy but always a republic, implies that we've never entertained democratic notions of privacy.
Has the will to un-molestation finally passed out of mainstream?
Sendmail, by the way, is missitabella in Latin; but I'm afraid cum missitabella isn't any more visible.
That was at least part of my pregnant intent.Gates and co. would have to have an effective monopoly on email traffic for that to work. (Which might have been conceivable before the advent of Gmail, by the way.)
Though it were hard for me to imagine, for instance, Unreal's engine being ported to Java, Quake seems to have fared well with feral C.