In computer programming, a parameter or a formal argument is a special kind of variable used in a subroutine to refer to one of the pieces of data provided...
30 KB (3,856 words) - 20:01, 17 August 2024
status, condition, etc. Parameter has more specific meanings within various disciplines, including mathematics, computer programming, engineering, statistics...
21 KB (2,950 words) - 21:49, 6 September 2024
In computer programming, named parameters, named-parameter arguments, named arguments or keyword arguments refer to a computer language's support for...
11 KB (1,058 words) - 10:08, 31 August 2024
contravariant in the parameter type. Here, the subtyping relation of the simple types is reversed for the complex types. A programming language designer...
53 KB (6,675 words) - 00:46, 28 June 2024
to: Parameter (computer programming), special kind of variable Parameter (linguistics), a grammar rule that is variable across languages Parameters (journal)...
556 bytes (97 words) - 08:44, 25 August 2023
In computer programming, a function (also procedure, method, subroutine, routine, or subprogram) is a callable unit of software logic that has a well-defined...
54 KB (6,633 words) - 00:17, 30 August 2024
In computer programming languages, TypeParameter is a generic label used in generic programming to reference an unknown data type, data structure, or class...
2 KB (154 words) - 02:43, 3 November 2020
In computer programming, a callback is a function that is stored as data (a reference) and designed to be called by another function – often back to the...
17 KB (1,868 words) - 13:29, 2 May 2024
In computer science and software programming, a value is the representation of some entity that can be manipulated by a program. The members of a type...
7 KB (980 words) - 04:56, 19 July 2024
tightly coupled, a system's performance is often reduced by message and parameter creation, transmission, translation (e.g. marshaling) and message interpretation...
16 KB (1,881 words) - 06:41, 19 July 2024
Batch file (redirect from Replacement parameter)
batch job and the first nine calling parameters from within the batch job, see also SHIFT. Non-existent parameters are replaced by a zero-length string...
34 KB (4,189 words) - 14:50, 20 August 2024
variables to be among computer science's "most valuable treasures." Donald Knuth, Structured Programming, with go to Statements In computer science, a pointer...
73 KB (9,782 words) - 23:19, 3 June 2024
by a student of a new programming language, but such a program can also be used as a sanity check to ensure that the computer software intended to compile...
27 KB (1,864 words) - 01:36, 28 August 2024
In computer programming, a constant is a value that is not altered by the program during normal execution. When associated with an identifier, a constant...
20 KB (2,685 words) - 12:13, 23 June 2024
In computer programming, trimming (trim) or stripping (strip) is a string manipulation in which leading and trailing whitespace is removed from a string...
5 KB (496 words) - 10:58, 3 December 2023
this, self, and Me are keywords used in some computer programming languages to refer to the object, class, or other entity which the currently running...
24 KB (3,119 words) - 17:19, 5 September 2024
In computer science, conditionals (that is, conditional statements, conditional expressions and conditional constructs) are programming language constructs...
37 KB (3,940 words) - 15:08, 21 August 2024
A method in object-oriented programming (OOP) is a procedure associated with an object, and generally also a message. An object consists of state data...
15 KB (1,837 words) - 18:00, 19 May 2024
In computer science, imperative programming is a programming paradigm of software that uses statements that change a program's state. In much the same...
32 KB (3,581 words) - 02:39, 30 August 2024
A computer program is a sequence or set of instructions in a programming language for a computer to execute. It is one component of software, which also...
127 KB (13,304 words) - 19:54, 27 August 2024
Type conversion (redirect from Cast (computer programming))
punning Mehrotra, Dheeraj (2008). S. Chand's Computer Science. S. Chand. pp. 81–83. ISBN 978-8121929844. Programming Languages - Design and Constructs. Laxmi...
23 KB (2,767 words) - 02:42, 24 July 2024
like X3J11 type qualifiers". The D Programming Language, Andrei Alexandrescu, 8.8: Propagating a Qualifier from Parameter to Result "WG14-N3020 : Qualifier-preserving...
44 KB (5,533 words) - 19:13, 17 July 2024
object-oriented programming, a class defines the shared aspects of objects created from the class. The capabilities of a class differ between programming languages...
46 KB (5,228 words) - 00:29, 29 July 2024
In computer science, a high-level programming language is a programming language with strong abstraction from the details of the computer. In contrast...
17 KB (2,027 words) - 19:45, 2 September 2024
Command-line interface (redirect from Command-line parameter)
interacting with a computer program by inputting lines of text called command-lines. Command-line interfaces emerged in the mid-1960s, on computer terminals,...
74 KB (8,405 words) - 02:45, 8 August 2024
computer science, purely functional programming usually designates a programming paradigm—a style of building the structure and elements of computer programs—that...
8 KB (902 words) - 17:11, 16 July 2024
Literate programming is a programming paradigm introduced in 1984 by Donald Knuth in which a computer program is given as an explanation of how it works...
40 KB (3,768 words) - 15:39, 19 August 2024
In computer programming, a comment is a programmer-readable explanation or annotation in the source code of a computer program. They are added with the...
55 KB (6,369 words) - 16:50, 17 August 2024
In computer programming, operators are constructs defined within programming languages which behave generally like functions, but which differ syntactically...
23 KB (1,764 words) - 14:33, 6 August 2024
argument, an item of information provided to a program when it is started Parameter (computer programming), a piece of data provided as input to a subroutine...
2 KB (280 words) - 23:37, 20 July 2024