16 example sentences using fixity.
Fixity used in a sentence
Fixity in a sentence as a noun
You could have a textbook backup strategy with restore drills and fixity checks making sure that your integrity is 100%.
Having to deal with state and order of computation is a much bigger headache when converting from math to code than fixity.
Even after 3 years of dealing with Haskell I found myself constantly misreading code because I didn't get the fixity right.
In order to evaluate "3 * 4 ^ 3 ^ 2 / 4 / 2 + 5 * 8" you must define the fixity and precedence of the operators involved.
Perhaps this somehow **** the reader, providing more fixity and solidity to the reader's sense of unfolding and progress of the text, and hence the story.
I was always having to lookup the fixity and associativity of things to know what was going on just in a single otherwise straightforward line of code.
With our digital data, we need a plan for periodically checking it, both for fixity and to make sure at risk file formats are migrated to current best practices.
This really shines in conjunction with the ability to define your own operators -- including their fixity -- so you can wage an all-out assault on parentheses!
Now I have to keep all that additional unnecessary cognitive load in my brain to just be able to get a hang of their code with their fixity rules associated with their symbols.
>>Every language has implicit fixity and precedence for infix operators.
You don't usually have to think about defining these things in most mainstream languages because the language defines the fixity and precedence of those operators for you to give the behavior you expect.
Ironically, Charles originally believed in the fixity of species.
It's basically Haskell with unicode identifiers and mixed-fixity.
A lot of incidental complexity is added due to the prevalence of custom functions/operators with arbitrary associativity and fixity, on top of normal precedence rules.
"You have the tactile sense of progress, in addition to the visual ... [The differences for Kindle readers] might have something to do with the fact that the fixity of a text on paper, and this very gradual unfolding of paper as you progress through a story, is some kind of sensory offload, supporting the visual sense of progress when you're reading.
Therefore it follows that Haskell also needs to allow you to specify the fixity and precedence so that your operators will fit together in the way that is appropriate for your domain.> Let me explain it a bit further: to read someone's code, first I have to see what symbols they have defined and what fixity they have ascribed to each of those.
Fixity definitions
the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment
See also: fastness fixedness fixture secureness
the quality of being incapable of mutation; "Darwin challenged the fixity of species"
See also: immutability immutableness