Re: Activation Groups and Modular Programming

["John Taylor" <jtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From FKolmann@netscape.net

> I have come to a tentative conclusion that AGs are a way to isolate or
> rather insulate a program from other programs within a job.
> One can then invoke a function and be reasonably sure that it will
> not affect or be affected by other programs within the job.
> A parrallel concept is local variables, where one can name a
> variable what one will and be sure that it will not affect other
> variables nor be affected by other variables provided that is local.
> In short AGs facilitate modular programming.
> John and Martin am I close to the mark or wildely off.

Bingo. It's all about resource management. Not so tough after all, eh? :)


John Taylor

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