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Leeds Office (National HQ)

GBdirect Ltd
Leeds Innovation Centre
103 Clarendon Road
LEEDS
LS2 9DF
West Yorkshire
United Kingdom

consulting@gbdirect.co.uk

tel: +44 (0)870 200 7273
Sales: 0800 651 0338

South East Regional Office

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18 Lynn Rd
ELY
CB6 1DA
Cambridgeshire
United Kingdom

consulting@gbdirect.co.uk

tel: +44 (0)870 200 7273
Sales: 0800 651 0338

Please note: Initial enquiries should always be directed to our UK national office in Leeds (West Yorkshire), even if the enquiry concerns services delivered in London or South/East England. Clients in London and the South East will typically be handled by staff working in the London or Cambridge areas.

1.5. Terminology

In C programs there are two distinct types of things: things used to hold values and things that are functions. Instead of having to refer to them jointly with a clumsy phrase that maintains the distinction, we think that it's useful to call them both loosely ‘objects’. We do quite a lot of that later, because it's often the case that they follow more or less the same rules. Beware though, that this isn't quite what the Standard uses the term to mean. In the Standard, an ‘object’ is explicitly a region of allocated storage that is used to represent a value and a function is something different; this leads to the Standard often having to say ‘… functions and objects …’. Because we don't think that it leads to too much confusion and does improve the readability of the text in most cases, we will continue to use our looser interpretation of object to include functions and we will explicitly use the terms ‘data objects’ and ‘functions’ when the distinction is appropriate.

Be prepared to find this slight difference in meaning if you do read the Standard.