[mercury-users] Event handling in mercury

[Holger Krug]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 01:35:51AM +1000, Peter Schachte wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 09:55:08PM +1000, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> > On 17-Jul-2001, Holger Krug <hkrug at rationalizer.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Maybe better to use the term "static" than global, directly
> > > corresponding to mainstream e.g. Java terminology.
> > 
> > OK, that's probably a good idea.
> 
> 'Static' isn't really a very good name for it, even though it's common
> practice.  I hate explaining to students that static doesn't mean what they
> think it means (unchanging), 'final' does.  Static means "shared."

But you (or your colleague in another course) nevertheless have to
explain it to students, because its common industrial practice to use
the word "static" this - admittedly not very straightforward - way.

At the end its the decision of the Mercury developers what they want
Mercury to be: a language only for education or for industry, too.

-- 
Holger Krug
hkrug at rationalizer.com
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