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Union Names and Actual Values

by Kevin Delin

In computer science, there are two ways to refer to the objects that we manipulate with the code. The first is “call-by-name”: a pointer to a particular memory location, such as number.times.lottery.won The second is “call-by-value” which is the value in the memory location itself: 0 As you might imagine, call-by-name is rather abstract while […]

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 1:12am on March 16, 2015