Programming Language Concepts

verb to put off or delay an action or event until a later time

• The decision to defer the project until next quarter was made by the board of directors.
• I think we should defer our vacation until next year when we have more money saved up.
• Let's just defer the party to next weekend, I'm too tired to host it tonight.
• Sometimes it's better to defer your dreams temporarily in order to focus on more pressing matters.

noun the act of excluding or the state of being excluded; the process or state of being kept out; the act of leaving out or omitting

• The policy clearly states the criteria for exclusion from the program.
• They decided to leave him out, but I'm not sure of the reason for the exclusion.
• She got kicked out of the group chat, total exclusion.
• The artist's unique style sets him apart from the rest, creating a sense of exclusion in the art world.

noun the process of analyzing a string of symbols according to the rules of a formal grammar

• The software engineer spent hours perfecting the parsing algorithm for the new data processing system.
• I'm still trying to wrap my head around the parsing process in coding.
• Dude, the parsing part of this code is so tricky, I can't figure it out.
• Just like parsing through a dense forest, sometimes we need to carefully navigate through complex data structures.

adjective describing something that is easy or enjoyable to read

• The report was presented in a highly readable format, making it easy for all stakeholders to understand.
• I like books that are really readable, you know, ones that you can't put down.
• That article was so readable, I finished it in one sitting.
• His emotions were written all over his face, making his feelings easily readable to everyone in the room.

noun A term used in computer programming to refer to a data object that can appear on the left side of an assignment statement.

adjective Describing a type of expression or variable that can be assigned a value.

• In C programming, an lvalue is an expression that refers to a memory location.
• You can think of an lvalue as something that can appear on the left side of an assignment operator.
• An lvalue is like the 'left-hand side' of an equation.
• Just like a mailbox can hold letters, an lvalue holds a memory location in programming.