Perl terms starting with T

26 terms

  1. (to be) dropped modules When Perl 5 was first released (see perlhistory), several modules were included, which have now fallen out of common use.
  2. tainted Said of data derived from the grubby hands of a user and thus unsafe for a secure program to rely on.
  3. TCP Transmission Control Protocol (Internet protocol).
  4. Term A term is the length of time between when a fixed-income security, such as a bond or note, is offered for sale and its maturity date.
  5. terminator 1. A DNA sequence just downstream of the coding segment of a gene, which is recognized by RNA polymerase as a signal to stop synthesizing mRNA. 2.
  6. ternary An "operator" taking three operands. Sometimes pronounced "trinary".
  7. text A "string" or "file" containing primarily printable characters.
  8. thread A series of postings on a particular topic. Threads can be a series of bulletin board messages (for example, when someone posts a question and others…
  9. TIE this is where neither the house nor the player wins.
  10. TMTOWTDI There's More Than One Way To Do It, the Perl Motto. The notion that there can be more than one valid path to solving a programming problem in context.
  11. Token See definition for: access token
  12. tokener A module that breaks a program text into a sequence of tokens for later analysis by a parser.
  13. tokenizing Splitting up a program text into tokens. Also known as "lexing", in which case you get "lexemes" instead of tokens.
  14. toolbox approach The notion that, with a complete set of simple tools that work well together, you can build almost anything you want.
  15. transliterate To turn one string representation into another by mapping each character of the source string to its corresponding character in the result string.
  16. trigger (TRIH-ger) In medicine, a specific event that starts a process or that causes a particular outcome.
  17. trinary Not a stellar system with three stars, but an "operator" taking three operands. Sometimes pronounced "ternary".
  18. troff A venerable typesetting language from which Perl derives the name of its 0 variable and which is secretly used in the production of Camel books.
  19. true Any scalar value that doesn't evaluate to 0 or "".
  20. truncating Emptying a file of existing contents, either automatically when opening a file for writing or explicitly via the truncate function.
  21. type A class or interface.
  22. type casting Converting data from one type to another. C permits this. Perl does not need it. Nor want it.
  23. typed lexical A "lexical variable" that is declared with a "class" type: my Pony $bill.
  24. typedef A type definition in the C language.
  25. typeglob Use of a single identifier, prefixed with *. For example, *name stands for any or all of $name, @name, %name, &name, or just name.
  26. typemap A description of how C types may be transformed to and from Perl types within an "extension" module written in "XS".