On Tuesday, June 23, 2009, at 07:23PM, "Jerry Krinock" <[email protected]> wrote: >Although eyebrows are raised at the on-the-fly invention of the term >"back pointers" (not defined in wikipedia.org), I suppose that "back >pointers ... are nullified" could be loosely interpreted to mean that,
"Back pointer" is not a new invention. It means just what you think it means: <http://www.google.com/search?q=%22back+pointer%22+computer+programming> In the real world, wikipedia.org is not the exhaustive gospel on any subject, including computer science. :) --Andy >in this case of the inverse relationship being to-many, in the object >at the other end of the relationship, in the set value of the inverse >relationship, the pointer to the deleted object is removed. That does >seem to be what happens. The author traded off some precision for >readability -- probably a good decision. I'll let that one slide. > >_______________________________________________ > >Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > >Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. >Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > >Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/aglee%40mac.com > >This email sent to [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
