Perl terms starting with W

7 terms

1. Warning The fourth of five Early Warning System components consisting of the processes (including the media) and equipment necessary to make the public aware of…
2. watch expression An expression which, when its value changes, causes a breakpoint in the Perl debugger.
3. whitespace A "character" that moves your cursor but doesn't otherwise put anything on your screen.
4. word In normal "computerese", the piece of data of the size most efficiently handled by your computer, typically 32 bits or so, give or take a few powers of 2.
5. working directory Your current "directory", from which relative pathnames are interpreted by the "operating system".
6. wrapper An object that encapsulates and delegates to another object to alter its interface or behavior in some way.
7. WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get Display and software technology which shows on the computer screen exactly what will print.