On 2007 Sep 2, at 10:38, Ed Siebel wrote:
a WHAT? I'm a neophyte, admittedly, so I'd appreciate some
instruction here. : ~ )) Thanks.
Ed
On Sep 1, 2007, at 7:32 PM, Richard S. Russell wrote:
. . . an instantiation of SectionAssignments which I'll call . . .
This isn't a term unique to FileMaker. Sorry if I gave that impression.
You've heard "Here's an instance of ..." or "In that instance ...".
Well, an "instantiation" is what results from creating a new instance
of something. In this case, it's what happens when you go to the
"Relationships" chart and create a new box to REPRESENT an existing
table.
Let's say you've already got a table called "SectionAssignments". You
can duplicate the box that represents that table, but you have to
give it a different name. (I used "SA vS" as my different name for
the 2nd box.) What you end up with is 2 different instantiations of
the same table.
FWIW, here's what a Google search on "define:instantiation" returned:
Definitions of instantiation on the Web:
The act of creating an ‘instance’ of a generic unit by replacing its
formal parameters by a set of matching actual parameters.
www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je/adacraft/glossary.htm
Before it can be used, a see-through tool must be instantiated on a
toolglass sheet. The tool may appear whenever this sheet is used,
only when this sheet is in a particular temporary mode, or only when
this sheet is in a particular position relative to the application.
The tool may be customized to a greater or lesser degree by the user.
A tool may be built from any number of see-through components; a
simple tool will have only one component, a complex tool may have
dozens or more.
www.billbuxton.com/TGtaxonomy.html
the electronic or physical manifestation of a resource.
members.optusnet.com.au/~webindexing/Webbook2Ed/glossary.htm
In programming, to produce a more defined version of an object by
replacing variables with values (or other variables). As used in
logic programming, this means to bind a logic variable (type
variable) to some value (type).
www.xilinx.com/publications/glossary.htm
A time-stamped state of data members satisfying a rule's condition.
www.research.att.com/sw/tools/r++/user_manual/glossary.html
A generated class or function (a definition) that is the result of
binding a template to particular argument types. Also known as a
generation.
docs.hp.com/en/1837/gloss.htm
The creation of new instances from class definitions.
www.cs.ucc.ie/~dgb/courses/swd/glossary.html
The mechanism in object-oriented systems whereby objects are created
from a class description.
www.idbureau.com/GlossaryA.html
a representation of an idea in the form of an instance of it; "how
many instantiations were found?"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
