As a note, latch is also used in the hardware world[1]. It's used to implement memory and is often connected to a clock. It also was part of the conceptual ide

As a note, latch is also used in the hardware world[1]. It's used to implement memory and is often connected to a clock. It also was part of the conceptual idea of the very cool demo language ANIC[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latch_%28electronics%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latch_%28electronics%29 [2] http://code.google.com/p/anic/wiki/Tutorial http://code.google.com/p/anic/wiki/Tutorial