Re: Evaluate or execute?

2021-10-24 Thread Thomas S. Dye
Aloha Rudolf, Joost, and Tim, Thanks very much. This helps a lot. All the best, Tom -- Thomas S. Dye https://tsdye.online/tsdye

Re: Evaluate or execute?

2021-10-24 Thread Rudolf Adamkovič
"Thomas S. Dye" writes: > Or, are the terms simply synonymous? Tom, have no idea about "Worg", but in computer science, one evaluates expressions to their values and executes statements for their side effects. For instance, the expression 1 + 1 evaluates to the value of 2, while the statement

Re: Evaluate or execute?

2021-10-24 Thread Tim Cross
s missing? Or, are the > terms simply synonymous? > I suspect that in some domains, there is probably a subtle difference between evaluate and execute, but when reading information on org, I think your pretty safe to consider them as synonymous. You need to evaluate a statement in order to execute it.

Re: Evaluate or execute?

2021-10-24 Thread Joost Kremers
On Sun, Oct 24 2021, Thomas S. Dye wrote: > The org manual and various documents on Worg appear to use the subject terms > as > synonyms for running a bit of source code and gathering its result. Is there > a > useful distinction that this non-software engineer is missing? Or, are the >

Evaluate or execute?

2021-10-24 Thread Thomas S. Dye
Aloha all, The org manual and various documents on Worg appear to use the subject terms as synonyms for running a bit of source code and gathering its result. Is there a useful distinction that this non-software engineer is missing? Or, are the terms simply synonymous? All the best, Tom