Re: Lostwages: developer-cheatsheet.template.diff

[Andreas Mohr]

Hi,

On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 06:17:27PM +0200, Francois Gouget wrote:
> Actually 'dereference' is correct here, although I have no doubt that it 
> is not in any dictionary.

Huh, why?

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=dereference

But OTOH it does mention "well established in jargon", so you might have
a point here.

Andreas

Lostwages: developer-cheatsheet.template.diff

[Tom Wickline]

On 8/16/05, Andreas Mohr  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 06:17:27PM +0200, Francois Gouget wrote:
> > Actually 'dereference' is correct here, although I have no doubt that it
> > is not in any dictionary.
>
> Huh, why?
>
> http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=dereference
>
> But OTOH it does mention "well established in jargon", so you might have
> a point here.

Francois what is your preference here? You do allot more spell
checking than I do, so we will go with 'dereference'  if you fell its
suitable.

Tom
> Andreas

Lostwages: developer-cheatsheet.template.diff

[Francois Gouget]

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Tom Wickline wrote:
> On 8/16/05, Andreas Mohr  wrote:

[...]
> > http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=dereference
> >
> > But OTOH it does mention "well established in jargon", so you might have
> > a point here.
>
> Francois what is your preference here? You do allot more spell
> checking than I do, so we will go with 'dereference'  if you fell its
> suitable.
> From the page pointed to by Andreas:
> dereference
>
> <programming> To access the thing to which a pointer points,
> i.e. to follow the pointer.

This is exactly what is meant in the cheat sheet so this is the term to 
use.