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Topic: context

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Group:
natural language
Group:
type inheritance

Topic:
current position in a user interface; cursor
Topic:
environment variables
Topic:
evaluation in an environment
Topic:
frame problem
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intertextuality and hypertext
Topic:
localized understanding
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meaning by use
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namespace
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names defined by context
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stack machine
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user-centered design

Summary

Context provides the environment, embedding, or peripheral for locally understood objects. The context is the generator or creator of a current position. Context provides the static component to meaning. (cbb 5/80)
Subtopic: context effects pointing, identity up

QuoteRef: woltN_1960 ;;90 can differentiate between pointing at a dog and pointing at a dogs tail [by the context]
Quote: equality is not the mere presence or absence of a property, but being true or false can depend on properties [»browGS_1972]
Quote: identity statements are senseless outside of a consistent context for individuating things [»benaP_1965]
Quote: a universal property need not be indicated [»browGS_1972]

Subtopic: context-dependent mouse up

Quote: Pygmalion uses a three button mouse that depends on context; for cursor positioning and moving values [»smitDC6_1975, OK]

Subtopic: context and global state up

Note: global state drags around the whole system; can't be used in other contexts [»cbb_2000, OK]

Subtopic: cloning up

Quote: clone by context for efficient type inference, thread escape analysis, points-to analysis, and pointer alias analysis

Subtopic: quotation in context up

Quote: step-out windowing in a hypertext returns a quotation in an anthology to its original context
[»nelsTH_1974]

Related Topics up

Group: natural language   (16 topics, 539 quotes)
Group: type inheritance   (13 topics, 394 quotes)

Topic: current position in a user interface; cursor (23 items)
Topic: environment variables (5 items)
Topic: evaluation in an environment (35 items)
Topic: frame problem (13 items)
Topic: intertextuality and hypertext (11 items)
Topic: localized understanding (43 items)
Topic: meaning by use (58 items)
Topic: namespace (19 items)
Topic: names defined by context (36 items)
Topic: stack machine (10 items)
Topic: user-centered design
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