RE: Reading value of passed variable

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Subject: RE: Reading value of passed variable
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:57:42 -0400

At 03:42 PM 6/17/2004, Deirdre wrote:

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Josh Canfield wrote:

> I imagine it has more to do with the OP either not looking, or not
> understanding what they are looking for.

The hardest thing when learning something quite alien is the latter. You
don't yet have the vocabulary to perform the search.

This paradox has been referred to in Philosophy as the "hermeneutic circle". This is its down side: to learn something, you have to know something, etc. An upward motion could be called "bootstrapping". The learning curve is a spiral staircase.

To help with this, societies of learning develop dogmas, teaching tales and mantras, which newbies are instructed in even before they see the light of understanding. "XSLT works on the tree, not on text: nodes are not tags." "You can't compose expressions on the fly" (these were an example of that -- you have to use a stylesheet to generate a stylesheet, or an eval() extension).

Cheers,
Wendell

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RE: Reading value of passed variable, (continued) Pieter Reint Siegers Kort - Thu, 17 Jun 2004 08:08:36 -0500 Andrew Welch - Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:21:35 +0100 Josh Canfield - Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:12:00 -0700 Deirdre Saoirse Moen - Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:42:43 -0700 (PDT) Message not available Wendell Piez - Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:57:42 -0400 <=

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