[Tutor] lists, name semantics

Laura Creighton lac at openend.se
Mon Apr 20 01:29:34 CEST 2015


In a message of Sun, 19 Apr 2015 19:19:27 -0400, Dave Angel writes:
>Good answer.  The java jvm garbage collector is free to move blocks 
>around to defrag the free space.

Correct.

>FWIW, I'm told the ID value used is a simple integer, that indexes a 
>list containing the actual addresses.

Also correct for the majority of cases.  You would have to be
an expert in GC to care about when this is not correct, which is
what I happen to be,  but only a pedant would object to what you said.

>So in this case, the binding value is an integer, not an address.

Utterly wrong.  The binding value has to be an address.  All addresses
are integers.  I have no clue what you meant by this.  Please resubmit
and try again.  That some of the adresses are indirectly referred to
through a list means _nothing_.

Very puzzled, your brain is thinking wrong thoughts, but mostly
I can guess what is meant, here I cannot at all,

Sorry about that,
Laura



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