Perl terms starting with I

28 terms

  1. I/O Input/Output .
  2. identifier A programmer-defined name for a variable, method, class or interface.
  3. impatience The anger you feel when the computer is being lazy. This makes you write programs that don't just react to your needs, but actually anticipate them.
  4. Implementation How a piece of code actually goes about doing its job. Users of the code should not count on implementation details staying the same unless they are part…
  5. Import Data brought into an environment or application which has been exported from another environment or application.
  6. increment To increase the value of something by 1 (or by some other number, if so specified).
  7. indexing Universal term for Coding and Data Entry.
  8. indirect filehandle An "expression" that evaluates to something that can be used as a "filehandle": a "string" (filehandle name), a "typeglob", a typeglob "reference", or a…
  9. indirect object In English grammar, a short noun phrase between a verb and its direct object indicating the beneficiary or recipient of the action.
  10. indirect object slot The syntactic position falling between a method call and its arguments when using the indirect object invocation syntax.
  11. indirection If something in a program isn't the value you're looking for but indicates where the value is, that's indirection.
  12. infix An "operator" that comes in between its operands, such as multiplication in 24 * 7.
  13. inheritance The transmission of genes and phenotypes from generation to generation.
  14. instance Area of the game that is for you and your party alone.
  15. instance variable A non-static field of a class. Each individual object of a class has its own copy of such a field.
  16. integer A number without a decimal (0, 1, 25, 173, 1032, etc.). Integer values can be less than, equal to, or greater than zero.
  17. interface (1) A shared boundary defined by common physical interconnection characteristics, signal characteristics, and meanings of interchanged signals.
  18. interpolation The estimation of z values of a surface at an unsampled point based on the known z values of surrounding points.
  19. interpreter A program which executes a translated version of a source program by implementing a virtual machine.
  20. invocant The agent on whose behalf a "method" is invoked. In a "class" method, the invocant is a package name.
  21. invocation The act of calling up a deity, daemon, program, method, subroutine, or function to get it do what you think it's supposed to do.
  22. IO (1) Information Operations. (2) Integrated Optic.
  23. IP Within the peritoneal cavity (the area that contains the abdominal organs). Also called intraperitoneal.
  24. IPC Information Policy Committee.
  25. is-a A relationship between two objects in which one object is considered to be a more specific version of the other, generic object: "A camel is a mammal.
  26. iteration Repetition of a set of statements, usually using a looping control structure, such as a while loop, for loop or do loop.
  27. iterator A special programming gizmo that keeps track of where you are in something that you're trying to iterate over.
  28. IV Interceptor Vehicle.