[dba-VB] English understanding: Intrinsic?

Hi Mark

Thanks, it makes much more sense now.
However, given that explanation, my quote now makes less sense:

>    Intrinsic morphing for byte, sbyte, char, int16, uint16, uint32 and uint64.

as the morphing is rather a built-in feature of the library, I guess. Without that feature the library would still be useful, you would just have to handle the morphing otherwise.
Except, of course, if the author himself find this feature essential and would regard the library as crippled without the feature. Perhaps that is what he means. I could ask.

/gustav

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Emne: Re: [dba-VB] English understanding: Intrinsic?

Hello All,

I am struggling to say why I would not use that word to describe the variables in a system.

I like the description here
<http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/intrinsic> including the additional example sentences.

Religion might be used with that word.
Culture might be.
Deep emotional things may be intrinsic.

Making money is intrinsic to MS
Helping others might be intrinsic to open source communities.

I would not say "atomic transactions are intrinsic to MS SQL Server".

Why not??  Somehow, it is not the right meaning, sql server does not believe it its heart that atomic transactions are important, they are just how it is built.

Safety is not intrinsic in the bridge,
Safety is intrinsic to the city that is building the new bridge.


Any help ?

Intrinsic means built in at a deep, almost emotional level.

There seems to be some intrinsically built into me that loves motorcycles.

Debate is intrinsically built into John Colby!

Mark



On 15 July 2014 09:43, Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> When you write, say about a code library:
>
>    Intrinsic morphing for byte, sbyte, char, int16, uint16, uint32 and uint64.
>
> does intrinsic here just mean built-in or internal or is that too simple?
> And what is the opposite? Extrinsic or external?
>
> /gustav