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... put in one drawer, the value in another,and so on. What is put inthe drawer holding the value can be changedwithout affecting the contents of the drawer holding the function definition,and ... looks to seewhether there is a quote before the list; if there is, the interpreter just givesus the list. On the other hand, if there is no quote, the interpreter looks at the first element inthe ... ‘red’so they will appear inthe final string. The function number -to- stringconverts the integer that the addition function returns to a string. number- to- string is also known as int -to- string.)1.8.3...
... and the h at the same time, and then press and releaset.)Also, I often refer to one of Emacs’ standard commands by listing the keys which you press to invoke the command and then giving the ... is to imagine a symbol as being a chest ofdrawers. The function definition is put in one drawer, the value in another,and so on. What is put inthe drawer holding the value can be changedwithout ... returns the value 8.Since there are no more enclosing expressions to evaluate, the interpreterprints that value inthe echo area.Now it is easy to understand the name of the command invoked by the keystrokes...
... the code within the body of the special formis evaluated by the Lisp interpreter. Thus, if point were inthe beginningof a piece of text and some code moved point tothe end of the buffer, the save-excursion ... the cursor to jump tothe mark and set the mark to be the previous positionof point. In addition, if you set another mark, the position of the previousmark is saved inthe mark ring. Many mark ... 3 variables with nil, nil, and some value." In this example, Emacs binds the symbol birch tothe number 3, binds the symbols pine and fir to nil, and binds the symbol oak tothe value some.Note...
... structure in which to display it. Manipulation issues include the following: Transforming data from XML into another format You might need to transform datain one XML grammar into another if the ... Move the slider further to the right to see how Northwind Traders customers interact withthe Web applications and also interact directly with Northwind Traders. Explain that the Web applications ... business over the Internet. The animation begins with a brief display of the entire process. Click the ZOOM IN button inthe lower right corner of the display. The animation then zooms in...
... dishes can beordered in 6 ways: the first side dish can be any of 3, the second side dishcan be any of the remaining 2, and the third side dish must be the remaining1 (3 ì2 ì 1 = 6). The math ... one of these rings on your left hand andanother on your right hand. How many ways can this be done?First, suppose that you wear the diamond ring on your left hand. Thenthere are three rings ... letter tothe restaurant, arguingthat the restaurant has overcounted by a factor of 6 and that the correctcount is 2730 ữ6 = 455. The restaurant cheerfully agrees and donates $1000 to the high...
... partition the binary number into groups offour digits each starting from the binary point and proceeding tothe left for the integer partand tothe right of the binary point for the fractional part. ... the binary number into groups of threedigits each starting from the binary point and proceeding tothe left for the integer part and to the right of the binary point for the fractional part. ... discussion of the different types of flip flops, and continues withtheanalysis and design of binarycounters, registers, ring counters, and ring oscillators. Chapter is anintroductionto computermemory...
... performance structure with properties of independent mathematical interest. e dynamic elementbrought to combinatorial problems by theanalysis of algorithms leads to chal-lenging, interesting mathematical ... viewed as the rst step inan ongoing process ofdeveloping a more rened, more accurate analysis; we prefer to use the term analysis of algorithms to refer tothe whole process, withthe goal ... a constant factor, as they are all integer mul-tiples of the cost of a basic instruction cycle. Furthermore, the total runningtime of the program will be within a constant factor of the number...
... related tothe Internet and Web browsers in Section 0.4.4 Chapter 0 Introductionto Computers and Programming LanguagesnetworkLANWANinternetIf you want to learn more about the history of ... by the CPU,we use an assembler to translate programs written in assembly language intomachine-language equivalents. Compared to writing programs in machine lan-guage, writing programs in ... assigning and changing these data values. We will use the nota-tion shown in Figure 1.1 throughout the book to represent an object. The notationwe used inthe book is based on the industry standard...
... apply the local inversion theorem first tothe restriction ofΘ to B, thus producing a “first” neighborhood Vof x0contained in B,thento the restriction of the inverse mapping obtained in this ... Riemannian metric on a manifoldis a twice covariant, symmetric, positive-definite tensor field acting on vectors in the tangent spaces tothe manifold (these tangent spaces coincide with R3 in the ... in Theorem 1.5-1 coincide with the Christoffel symbols introduced inthe previous section; this explains whythey are denoted by the same symbol). Note that, according tothe rule gov-erning...