Temporary variable variable "temp" as follows, so as to preserve the data from "a" as it is being overwritten by "b": Temporary variables are usually named with identifiers that abbreviate the word "temporary", such as "temp", "tmp" or simply "t", or with common metasyntactic variable names, the most common of which are "foo", "bar", "baz" (see also foobar). Computer hardware is designed to exploit the behaviour of temporary data: a cache or register file may contain temporaries internally to a microprocessor, such that they never need to be committed to main memory (hence consuming no external memory bandwidth). Temporary variable In computer
What Is Literature? What Is Literature? What Is Literature? (), also published as "Literature and Existentialism",) is an essay by French philosopher and novelist Jean-Paul Sartre, published by Gallimard in 1948. Initially published in freestanding essays across French literary journals "Les Temps modernes", "Situations I" and "Situations II", essays "What is Writing?" and "Why Write?" were translated into English and published by the Paris-based literary journal Transition 1948. The English translation by Bernard Frechtman was published in 1950. Sartre attempts to devise an understanding of the effect literature has on those who are subjected to it. In the foreword Sartre addresses his critics