From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,8ade73c17347d621 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!weretis.net!feeder2.news.weretis.net!news.tornevall.net!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Temporary variables Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:43:38 -0700 Organization: TornevallNET - http://news.tornevall.net Message-ID: References: <4b676ec8$0$7622$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 08198bcde2f006ef3a931d368cd3bac1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: 99efec5757fa8bc41b6b7aa95d23b6be X-Complaints-To: abuse@tornevall.net X-Complaints-Language: Spoken language is english or swedish - NOT ITALIAN, FRENCH, GERMAN OR ANY OTHER LANGUAGE! In-Reply-To: <4b676ec8$0$7622$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> X-Validate-Post: http://news.tornevall.net/validate.php?trace=99efec5757fa8bc41b6b7aa95d23b6be X-SpeedUI: 1738 X-Complaints-Italiano: Parlo la lingua non � italiano User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) X-Posting-User: 0243687135df8c4b260dd4a9a93c79bd Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8853 Date: 2010-02-01T17:43:38-07:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus wrote: > Recently, more and more WWW writers writing about programming > seem to prefer the phrase "temporal variable" to "temporary > variable", for exmple, in the Ada wikibook. I don't know > English well, but I had thought (and have checked) that > "temporal" is not the same as "temporary". It is either I haven't encountered this, but I agree that it's probably wrong. "Temporal" in SW usually means "of or pertaining to time"; that's its meaning in "temporal logic", for example. So you might refer to a variable that holds a time-related value a temporal variable, but that's a stretch. A temporary variable is also related to time: It's a variable that only exists for a short period of time. That is perhaps where the confusion arises. The use in the link you posted should be "temporary". -- Jeff Carter "I'm particularly glad that these lovely children were here today to hear that speech. Not only was it authentic frontier gibberish, it expressed a courage little seen in this day and age." Blazing Saddles 88