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Boyko Bantchev wrote:
On 11/22/05, Chris Marrin <chris@marrin.com> wrote: For the record, the only place except Lua that I find the word `upvalue' in use is Mathematica, where there are `downvalues' as well: http://documents.wolfram.com/mathematica/book/section-2.5.10 . However, Mathematica's use of `upvalue' is different.
Uh? I thought it was a common term in functionnal programming.Well, there is no definition of that word in Wikipedia, the only hit is in this Lua article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_programming_language
And searching upvalue in Google brings around 950 answers, half that if I exclude the Lua word...
Funny, while searching, I found this page: http://search390.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid10_gci833537,00.html
It seems Lua is used in CICS and OS/390, fields which are unknown for me. The funny part is that I found my name in the article! It is a bit embarrassing, as there are lot more good examples of Lua programming than that, and it didn't shown a lot of Lua features...
Plus it has the old URL and the \n were transformed in single n Sigh. -- Philippe Lhoste -- (near) Paris -- France -- http://Phi.Lho.free.fr -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --