RE: terminology

From: jarkko.hietaniemi@nokia.com
Date: Thu May 02 2002 - 15:58:12 EDT


> At 15:15 -0400 2002-05-02, Tex Texin wrote:
> >Sentinel does have a meaning in software, an extension of "guard" to
> >mean a delimiting value.
> >
> >For instance of usage, see:
> >http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/versions/Unicode3.0.1.html
>
> Try finding another software meaning using this word, please, not one
> from Unicode.

Punching "sentinel value" to Google brings out dozens of software
references to "sentinels".
 



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