last recorded value: The last value that G2 recorded for a variable or parameter. The last recorded value may be current or expired.
layer: In the Icon Editor, a component of an icon that contains one or more graphic elements. Layers can be grouped into regions.
layers pad: The part of the Icon Editor that allows you to view the layers of an icon and work with them individually.
linearization: The process of ordering the ancestors of a multiple inheritance class into a sequential list that can be used to search for inherited definitions and resolve conflicts among them.
literal value: In an expression, a series of characters that literally signifies a value of type
integer, float, truth-value, text, or symbol. local data server: Anything within G2 that supplies computed, inferred, or simulated values. The G2 simulator and the G2 inference engine are examples of local data servers.
local emulator: Within a g2-to-g2-data-interface object, the name of a connection specification that specifies that the interface is connecting to the current G2 process, rather than a remote process.
local name: A non-reserved symbol that represents an item or value in an expression. In rules and procedures, you can use implicit, or undeclared, local names. In procedures, you must declare local names that can receive an assignment. Use a local name to represent an item of any class or a value of any G2 type.
local window: The visible window that is a client of a G2 process. Among computers running the X Windows window manager, a G2 process's local window can be displayed either on the screen of the computer where G2 is running or on another computer's screen. Contrast with remote window.
log file: A file to which G2 can optionally write informational messages.