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plan 9 has something equivalent to aliases via bind, in contrast to symlinks which are equivalent to references:
" Symlinks disappear
bind takes care of this nicely by allowing you to place a directory on top of another one. ... Since symlinks are not needed and not present in Inferno, the problems with cyclic filesystem references very nearly disappear. " -- http://debu.gs/entries/inferno-part-0-namespaces
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in C you have the curious syntax:
(*count_ptr)++
to increment the value that count_ptr is pointing to. i call this curious because ++ must really be taking a pointer, not a value, as its input, yet here it looks like we are sending it a value. what must really be happening is that (*count_ptr) does not actually denote the value itself, but rather, "the variable pointed to by count_ptr".
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note that there are connections between jasperSpreadsheet, jasperPointers, and jasperViews (all have to do with spreadsheet-like or JS DOM/UI-like binding between objects.
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