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What is means digest in ECMAScript document? #1197
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"digest" means "to arrange in convenient or methodical order; reduce to a system; classify." The text says that |
@ljharb May https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier be "digest" in this occurence? |
@dSalieri no, a UUID would be a single unique identifier; in this case the "digest" is a collection of key/value pairs. |
@ljharb So I can translate "digested" as "processed" and "digest" as "processed data"? |
I wrote the original sentence that used "digested":
I think a better translation would be: "digested" as "extracted" and "digest" as "the extracted data"; because the information isn't is actually transformed. It is just collected. In English, "process" could imply that the information has been manipulated in some way. The "digested information" exists in the source code of a module and could be obtained each time it is needed by reanalyzing the source code. But its easier in the specification to make reference to the digested information than it is describe how to analyze the source code each time some information is needed |
@allenwb Can you show example of "digested information" in the source code of a module? I can not yet imagine this abstraction. |
One might imagine that such information might be an AST, for example. Closing, since this was answered in #1197 (comment) |
If you open Module section, you will be able to see:
What is mean digest?
P.S Word digest used only in Module section.
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