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  2. Mutatis mutandis - Wikipedia

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    Mutatis mutandis is a Medieval Latin phrase meaning "with things changed that should be changed" or "once the necessary changes have been made", literally: having been changed, going to be changed. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It continues to be seen as a foreign-origin phrase (and thus, unnaturalized, meaning not integrated as part of native vocabulary ...

  3. Immutable object - Wikipedia

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    However, m and i cannot legally refer to the same object. In the language of guarantees, mutable has no guarantees (the function might change the object), const is an outward-only guarantee that the function will not change anything, and immutable is a bidirectional guarantee (the function will not change the value and the caller must not ...

  4. Serenity Prayer - Wikipedia

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    A version of the Serenity prayer appearing on an Alcoholics Anonymous medallion (date unknown).. The Serenity Prayer is an invocation by the petitioner for wisdom to understand the difference between circumstances ("things") that can and cannot be changed, asking courage to take action in the case of the former, and serenity to accept in the case of the latter.

  5. Immutable characteristic - Wikipedia

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    An immutable characteristic is any physical attribute perceived as unchangeable, entrenched and innate. The term is often used to describe segments of the population that share such attributes and are contrasted with others by those attributes, and is used in human rights law to classify protected groups of people who should be protected from civil or criminal actions directed against those ...

  6. Constant (computer programming) - Wikipedia

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    The meaning here is that only a const function may be called for an object instantiated as const; a const function doesn't change any non-mutable data. C# has both a const and a readonly qualifier; its const is only for compile-time constants, while readonly can be used in constructors and other runtime applications.

  7. Code refactoring - Wikipedia

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    Refactoring is usually motivated by noticing a code smell. [2] For example, the method at hand may be very long, or it may be a near duplicate of another nearby method. Once recognized, such problems can be addressed by refactoring the source code, or transforming it into a new form that behaves the same as before but that no longer "smells".

  8. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus or synonym dictionary lists similar or related words; these are often, but not always, synonyms. [15] The word poecilonym is a rare synonym of the word synonym. It is not entered in most major dictionaries and is a curiosity or piece of trivia for being an autological word because of its meta quality as a synonym of synonym.

  9. Untranslatability - Wikipedia

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    but the war was not lost yet (. . . so we fought on). A use which relies heavily on intonation and context could produce yet another meaning: "So the war was really not over yet (as you have been trying to convince me all along)." Another change of intonation makes the sentence a question.