Re: [GNU-traductores] Statement if, while...

[Javier Fdez. Retenaga]

Dora Scilipoti escribió:
> On 13/06/2014 11:41, Javier Fdez. Retenaga wrote:
> > ¿Cómo se traduce ahí "statement"? ¿Declaración, sentencia...?
> 
> ¿Dónde te lo has encontrado? ¿Podrías poner más contexto?

"You see, if somebody has made a machine that does something once, and somebody 
else designs a machine that will do the same thing, but N times, for us that's 
a 
for-loop, but for the Patent Office that's an invention. If there are machines 
that can do A, and there are machines that can do B, and somebody designs a 
machine that can do A or B, for us that's an *if-then-else statement*, but for 
the Patent Office that's an invention".

O, por ejemplo, al explicar las diferencias entre la ingeniería física y la 
ingeniería informática:

"For instance, when I put an if-statement inside of a while-loop,

    I don't have to worry that if this while-loop repeats at the wrong rate, 
the 
if-statement might start to vibrate and it might resonate and crack;
    I don't have to worry that if it resonates much faster—you know, millions 
of 
times per second—that it might generate radio frequency signals that might 
induce wrong values in other parts of the program; (...)".

"While" es un "loop", y así lo llama al principio de esta cita, pero otras 
veces 
lo llama "statement", que es una denominación más general.