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- Subject: Re: Definition of Semantic: was What Lua can do that other programming languages can't do?
- From: Javier Guerra Giraldez <javier@...>
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:41:22 -0500
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> Have I made this distinction correctly? Is "semantics of" a synonym for
> "behavior of"?
no, "semantics" means "meaning" . from wikipedia:
Semantics (from Ancient Greek: σημαντικός sēmantikós)[1][2] is the
study of meaning
it's common to discuss the semantics of programming language primitive
or basic libraries when you want to talk about what those things mean.
q: what does t[x] mean?
a: it's a reference to a member to table 't' indexed by key 'x'
--
Javier
- References:
- What Lua can do that other programming languages can't do?, Muqtheear S
- Re: What Lua can do that other programming languages can't do?, Joseph Manning
- Re: What Lua can do that other programming languages can't do?, Coda Highland
- Re: What Lua can do that other programming languages can't do?, José Passes
- Re: What Lua can do that other programming languages can't do?, Coda Highland
- Re: What Lua can do that other programming languages can't do?, Sean Conner
- Re: What Lua can do that other programming languages can't do?, Coda Highland
- Re: What Lua can do that other programming languages can't do?, Roberto Ierusalimschy
- Re: What Lua can do that other programming languages can't do?, Steve Litt
- Re: What Lua can do that other programming languages can't do?, Jorge
- Re: What Lua can do that other programming languages can't do?, Steve Litt
- Definition of Semantic: was What Lua can do that other programming languages can't do?, Steve Litt
