strong/weak typing and pointers

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Nov 2 21:51:14 EST 2004


Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> I'm no native speaker, so I maybe confused the meaning of permanent. In
> german, permanent not only means that things are enduring, but also that
> things are done on regular bases: "He permanently changed his cloth."

We would say "regularly", "frequently", "habitually", or
something like that. In English, "permanently" means
"once and for all".

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Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
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