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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 07/22/07 02:05
Toby A Inkster wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>
>> If you want to go that far, you can say the same thing about documents
>> in your favorite text editor. After all, there is an "intermediate"
>> form of the file in memory.
>
> Yes -- but that's likely to be pretty similar to the form of the file on
> disk, though perhaps held in memory in a different charset.
>
> The representation of a parsed PHP script in the PHP interpreter's memory
> bears little resemblance to the PHP script itself, and is closer to a
> compiled program than a block ASCII text.
>
And one can argue the amount of similarity is not relevant. For
instance, I suspect a word processor such as MS Word holds a document
internally in much different form than it is on disk.
Where do you draw the line?
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