The Book Exercise


Fun with random book excerpts!

Via Due Diligence:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

“In general, the names of bindings do not affect the semantics of a program, but are simply used to improve readability.”

From Andrew Shalit’s “The Dylan Reference Manual: The Definitive Guide to the New Object-Oriented Dynamic Language.” Those of you who know I’m fond of the Dylan programming language may think I went out of my way to locate it, but in fact, the DRM was at the top of the pile of books closest to me at the time I read the rules.

Note that page 23 of the DRM has some example code, etc., so it may depend on your interpretation of the rules, but the above is what I consider the fifth sentence from the text on that page.

Posted: Fri - April 23, 2004 at 11:13 PM          

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