Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Name mangling. In compiler construction, name mangling (also called name decoration) is a technique used to solve various problems caused by the need to resolve unique names for programming entities in many modern programming languages. It provides means to encode added information in the name of a function, structure, class or another data ...
Naming convention (programming) In computer programming, a naming convention is a set of rules for choosing the character sequence to be used for identifiers which denote variables, types, functions, and other entities in source code and documentation. Reasons for using a naming convention (as opposed to allowing programmers to choose any ...
Snake case (sometimes stylized autologically as snake_case) is the naming convention in which each space is replaced with an underscore (_) character, and words are written in lowercase. It is a commonly used naming convention in computing, for example for variable and subroutine names, and for filenames. One study has found that readers can ...
In Systems Hungarian notation, the prefix encodes the actual data type of the variable. For example: bReadLine(bPort,&arru8NumberList) : function with a byte-value return code. strName : Variable represents a string ("str") containing the name, but does not specify how that string is implemented.
String interpolation is an alternative to building string via concatenation, which requires repeat quoting and unquoting; [2] or substituting into a printf format string, where the variable is far from where it is used. Compare: apples = 4 puts "I have #{apples} apples." # string interpolation puts "I have " + String(apples) + " apples."
Type conversion. In computer science, type conversion, [1][2] type casting, [1][3] type coercion, [3] and type juggling[4][5] are different ways of changing an expression from one data type to another. An example would be the conversion of an integer value into a floating point value or its textual representation as a string, and vice versa.
Python syntax and semantics. A snippet of Python code with keywords highlighted in bold yellow font. The syntax of the Python programming language is the set of rules that defines how a Python program will be written and interpreted (by both the runtime system and by human readers). The Python language has many similarities to Perl, C, and Java ...
Variable (computer science) In computer programming, a variable is an abstract storage location paired with an associated symbolic name, which contains some known or unknown quantity of data or object referred to as a value; or in simpler terms, a variable is a named container for a particular set of bits or type of data (like integer, float ...