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April 23, 2004
Nearest book, page 23, sentence 5.
This is a fun and mild way of wasting your time I'ld say, I'm in for sure!
The enclosing instance stores the sole reference to its finalizer guardian in a private instance field so the finalizer guardian becomes eligible for finalization at the same time as the enclosing instance. -- from Effective Java, Joshua Bloch.
Damn, this makes me look like a nerd again, just because Bruno asked me to bring this book along to the office.
It gets marginally better if I interpret 'nearest' not in the physical but the mental distance. This is my current bed-time read:
Geen twee waren er ooit precies gelijk, vertelde ze, en het besef dat er binnen een zeshoekig basispatroon zoveel variatie kon zijn was een openbaring voor me. -- from 'Oom Wolfraam en mijn chemische jeugd' i.e. the Dutch Translation of Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Oliver Sacks.# Posted by mpo at 08:03 AM | TrackBack
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What really worries me, is that Bloch's sentence actually made sense when read in context. But reading just this fragment makes it look like mumbo-jumbo.
Posted by: Tom Klaasen at April 28, 2004 12:51 AMMaybe the whole book is just hypnotizing mumbo-jumbo, converting everybody who reads it into obedient followers of the Bloch Cult?