So now we have the phenomenal cosmic power to define functions.

He stood stock still, as if struck motionless by a discovery.

We're going to declare that we are the

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So when I had my TED wish last year,

... do now avow and affirm do now avow and affirm that I take the office of the President of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol that I accept the office of the...

Read my lips.

I'll start the testimonies.

And I want to demonstrate that that, too, is a dangerous myth, very dangerous.

May the Lord strengthen your consent and fill you with His blessings.

How was that received? With standing ovations.

Testify!

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Declaration

Declare

Let's write the function that does that.

I'll just write out the definition of Fibonacci right here.

We can only call functions

We can only declare variables

We can only have bounded variables

Then I declare how my URL is going to map to my application.

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finish declaration

texture map declaration

pigment map declaration

color map declaration

slope map declaration

interior declaration

media declaration

material declaration

Here's our webpage with embedded JavaScript in it.

No, no one has yet declared.

Let me translate this for you.

So here we have our optimize function that takes in the abstract syntax tree.

Go ahead.

Let me give you an example of what I mean by harmless but taboo sexual practice.

I hereby declare the opening of the Olympic Games.

Well, in fact, there are three somewhat counter intuitive findings that come out of all this.

You must have these parentheses.

I here by declare a state of emergency.

But you'll see slight differences later.