They start out as the denotational, objective-sounding term for a marginalized racial or ethnic group, then over time as whatever dominant racial/ethnic group uses them, they get associated with whatever stereotypes said majority has, and then they have bad connotations, and then people think of a new word. ❋ Intertribal (2010)
This is not to say that an overblown articulation lacks some denotational insight, I stress, but to say it lacks connotational impact. ❋ Hal Duncan (2010)
This ignorance is a sad fact, especially for those who endorse a denotational theory of meaning. ❋ Wheatland_press (2007)
In contrast, a denotational semantics (Milne & Strachey 1977) provides an interpretation into mathematical structures such as sets or categories. ❋ Turner, Raymond (2008)
Is it that denotational semantics, being explicitly based upon mathematical structures such as sets, is mathematical whereas operational semantics is not? ❋ Turner, Raymond (2008)
What is the difference between operational and denotational semantics? ❋ Turner, Raymond (2008)
One of the most important distinctions in programming languages semantics centres upon the distinction between operational and denotational semantics. ❋ Turner, Raymond (2008)
However, even this does not exactly line up with the traditional operational/denotational divide. ❋ Turner, Raymond (2008)
Some denotational definitions have a recursive model and some do not. ❋ Turner, Raymond (2008)
But does it provide us with a wedge to separate operational and denotational semantics? ❋ Turner, Raymond (2008)
Spinrad puts far too much emphasis on the denotational content of stories, making him the SF world's equivalent of somebody who thinks every single word of the Bible is literal truth. ❋ Unknown (2005)
But programs bring about the activity of certain machines: “The inherent procedural consequences of any computer program give it a toehold in semantics, where the semantics in question is not denotational, but causal.” ❋ Cole, David (2004)
On a different tack, he chooses winter and spring, words that have gigantic semantic fields, with several denotational and connotational meanings, and countless metaphorical extensions. ❋ William Safire (2004)
Programming languages are for hackers, and a programming language is good as a programming language (rather than, say, an exercise in denotational semantics or compiler design) if and only if hackers like it. ❋ Unknown (2001)
Semantically, this is a form of refinement of non-determinism performed during code transformation (in fact, I'm still not sure what the correct denotational approach to its semantics would be). ❋ Unknown (2010)
Originally, I intended this definition as a denotational semantics of future values, but I realized that it could be a workable implementation with a lazy enough ❋ Unknown (2009)
That post presented a simple denotational semantics of future values simply as time / value pairs. ❋ Unknown (2009)
