Perl terms starting with G

11 terms

  1. garbage collection The automatic detection and freeing of memory that is no longer in use. The Java runtime system performs garbage collection so that programmers never…
  2. GID Group ID--in Unix, the numeric group ID that the "operating system" uses to identify you and members of your "group".
  3. glob Strictly, the shell's * character, which will match a "glob" of characters when you're trying to generate a list of filenames.
  4. global Something you can see from anywhere, usually used of variables and subroutines that are visible everywhere in your program.
  5. global destruction The "garbage collection" of globals (and the running of any associated object destructors) that takes place when a Perl "interpreter" is being shut down.
  6. glue language A language such as Perl that is good at hooking things together that weren't intended to be hooked together.
  7. Granularity The size of the pieces you're dealing with, mentally speaking.
  8. greedy A "subpattern" whose "quantifier" wants to match as many things as possible.
  9. grep Originally from the old Unix editor command for "Globally search for a Regular Expression and Print it", now used in the general sense of any kind of…
  10. group (also referred to as a Technology Center or TC) - a unit of several Group Art Units in the mechanical, electrical, chemical or design area, managed by one…
  11. GV An internal "glob value" typedef, holding a "typeglob". The "GV" type is a subclass of "SV".