VERY nice, Brian. Too wide for my monitor (like Ron's blog), but swell design nonetheless.

Actually, when I think about it, FSC has been too wide for my monitor since the arrival of Madame S.

Yeah, but that monkey thing has since been debunked. In real world experiments, monkeys have proven merely to type the letter "S" a lot and also to urinate and defecate on the keyboard quite enthusiastically.

I LOVE the new header, BKS, esp. its SITE-SPECIFIcity -- but like Kasey cannot see all of it.

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The Stack is just what it sounds like: a tower of things that starts at the bottom and builds upward as it goes. In our case, the things in the stack are called "Stack Frames" or just "frames". We start with one stack frame at the very bottom, and we build up from there.

Being able to understand that basic idea opens up a vast amount of power that can be used and abused, and we're going to look at a few of the better ways to deal with it in this article.

This will allow us to use a few functions we didn't have access to before. These lines are still a mystery for now, but we'll explain them soon. Now we'll start working within the main function, where favoriteNumber is declared and used. The first thing we need to do is change how we declare the variable. Instead of

But variables get one benefit people do not

Note the new asterisks whenever we reference favoriteNumber, except for that new line right before the return.