Um, Steve, "reenterable" was the original word circa 1964. Some IBM
dockie circa 1970 thought that that looked too complex and found the
word "reentrant" in a dictionary. Unfortunately, he or she did not read
the definition. "Reentrant" meant a closed curve that had at least one
concave segment, i.e. it re-entered itself. "Reenterable" means a
program that is capable of being re-entered without compromising data
integrity. The -able suffix is the essence of the word.
A program that is re-entrant according to the strict definition is one
that spontaneously re-enters itself. We call such behavior a loop.
/<rant>
Steve Comstock<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Well, when you are learning Assembler, the work to write reentrant (I,
too, prefer that term to the relatively new-fangled "reenterable") can
get in the way of focusing on simply how the instructions work and how
to string together series of instructions to accomplish specific tasks.
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