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Originally Posted by barryem
I suggest looking up the meaning of the word "metaphor". It might help you understand this thread.
As a retired computer programmer I always thought of computers themselves as metaphors. Your computer doesn't actually have Windows. I bet you give the other programmers a hard time about that one. 
When you stop at a stop sign, you don't start up again while it still says "Stop" do you?
By the way, I've been retired too long. Maybe you can remind me what kind of knot you tie to make a loop in your program.
Barry |
Your message makes no sense.
To be clear on several points:
1. If you were trying to make analogies, they didn't apply, which is consistent with your apparent misunderstanding of 'metaphor'.
2. The use of the term rental in the context of this thread is not a metaphor, it's simply wrong. I don't know if it's wrong because the poster simply does not understand what "rental" means or if they are being intentionally disingenuous to try to make a false argument. It's the difference between falsely accusing someone of being a 'pedophile' because you think that's what you call someone who likes to ride bicycles, or doing it because you want to slander them. But it's patently wrong in either case.
That was an analogy.
3. The knot you use to tie your loops is a boolean not.
4. If your loop is itself executing multiple FOR loops, that's a meta-for.