Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> writes Re: OO ruminations [..] Similar to method invocation, instance variables should have their own primitives. An optimizing native code Forth probably can compile good code out of simpler primitives, but not all Forths are of that type. OTOH, people that use a non-optimizing native code Forth surely don't care about generating good code. There ...

...The 114 messages on object models have been an interesting read, actually. I don't program with objects, and certainly couldn't consider myself an implementor of (a) Forth, but I wonder if Ian Piumarta and Alessandro Warth's paper, "Open, Reusable Object Models": <http://www.vpri.org/pdf/obj_mod_RN-2006-003-a.pdf> might be of some value in focussing your ruminations? Best, Charles

...the counts in k(i_max+1) Either use floor() or int(), or subtract one. Thanks for your response, Glen. We seemed to be posting at the same time here. I made a second response to elliot that ruminates about the above. I won't believe anything until Steve Kargl chimes in. As far as the original question, I believe it is one fourth, not one eighth. If you have two (...

... Agriculture Organisation has estimated that meat production accounts for nearly a fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions. These are generated during the production of animal feeds, for example, while ruminants, particularly cows, emit methane, which is 23 times more effective as a global warming agent than carbon dioxide. The agency has also warned that meat consumption is set to...

...Food and Agriculture Organisation has estimated that meat production accounts for nearly a fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions. These are generated during the production of animal feeds, for example, while ruminants, particularly cows, emit methane, which is 23 times more effective as a global warming agent than carbon dioxide. The agency has also warned that meat consumption is set to ...

...Food and Agriculture Organisation has estimated that meat production accounts for nearly a fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions. These are generated during the production of animal feeds, for example, while ruminants, particularly cows, emit methane, which is 23 times more effective as a global warming agent than carbon dioxide. The agency has also warned that meat consumption is set to ...

...Food and Agriculture Organisation has estimated that meat production accounts for nearly a fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions. These are generated during the production of animal feeds, for example, while ruminants, particularly cows, emit methane, which is 23 times more effective as a global warming agent than carbon dioxide. The agency has also warned that meat consumption is set to ...

... -- I can see the Manette Bridge from here and the Boat Shed seafood restaurant, but not the bakery (too many of those pesky evergreen trees). Since I have nothing better to do, I've been ruminating on this situation between you and John. For the last few days. Both of you have mostly 'fessed up to what actually happened, so at least the basic facts are on the table, at last. Here'...

... were conscious. After some reflection, he responded that if we regarded them as conscious, they were conscious. This somewhat enigmatic but probably profound criterion stimulated my subsequent rumination on the rampant anthropomorphism we practice on our childhood toys, our automobiles, and our computers, and led me to the radical proposition that all definable entities could be...

...experiments were conscious. After some reflection, he responded that if we regarded them as conscious, they were conscious. This somewhat enigmatic but probably profound criterion stimulated my subsequent rumination on the rampant anthropomorphism we practice on our childhood toys, our automobiles, and our computers, and led me to the radical proposition that all definable entities could be ...