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lichtkind committed May 14, 2012
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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions docs/appendix-a-index.txt
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<a id="chroot"/>
[**chroot**](tablet-5-io.html#chroot) &mdash;
change root directory on POSIX systems
change root directory on POSIX like systems

<a id="cis"/>
**cis**
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<a id="code"/><a id="code-context"/><a id="code-op"/>
**code**
[*«context op»*](appendix-b-grouped.html#contextualizers) &mdash;
forces [*callable context*](appendix-g-glossary.html#code-context) ,
forces [*callable context*](appendix-g-glossary.html#code-context),
alias to [**&**()](#ampersand-context-op)

<a id="code-adverb"/>
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<a id="COMMENT-pod-var"/>
**@=COMMENT**
[*«special var»*](appendix-b-grouped.html#pod-variables) &mdash;
all the comment blocks in the file
contains all the comment blocks of that file

<a id="Complex-type"/>
**Complex**
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[**i**](appendix-a-index.html#i-constant) *(imaginary number)* &mdash;
square root of -1, fundamental mathematical constant to build
[*complex number*](#complex-number), displayed as `0+1i`
important to the functions,
important to the functions ,
see also: [*e*](#e), [*pi*](#pi)

<a id="interpolation"/>
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<a id="iteration"/>
**iteration** &mdash;
repeated executing of a term or [*block*](#block),
enforced by [*iterators*](#iterator)
is a repeated executing of a term or [*block*](#block),
enforced by [*iterators*](#iterator).
Sometimes its meant as a specific repetition.

<a id="iterator"/>
**iterator** &mdash; [iterators](appendix-b-grouped.html#loops)
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<a id="OOP"/>
**OOP** *(object oriented orogramming)* &mdash;
programming paradigm (style), that arranges data and functions
that belong together into so called objects
programming paradigm (style), that in which functions ([*routines*](#routine))
are combined with the data the operate on to so called [*objects*](#object).

<a id="operand"/>
**operand** &mdash;
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it usually has a [*type*](#type) that sets limits what values are acceptable,
there are *required parameter*, *optional parameter*,
[*positional parameter*](#positional-parameter) and [named parameter](#named-parameter),
sum of all parameters is called [signature](#signature)
sum of all parameters is called [*signature*](#signature) &mdash;
example: `sub sum (Num $summand1, Num $summand2) { return $summand1 + $summand2 }`
later: `$s = sum(3, 4);`, \$summand1 and \$summand2 are parameter of sum,
the values 3 and 4 were the arguments of the specific call of sum

<a id="parsetree"/>
**parsetree** &mdash;
hierarchical data representing the logical structure
of a program, also called [*AST*](#AST)
hierarchical data representing the logical structure of a program,
also called [*AST*](#AST)

<a id="parsing"/>
**parsing** &mdash;
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