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dwimmery en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈdwɪ.mə.ɹi/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈdwɪ.mɚ.ɹi/ (US)

Etymology

From DWIM + -ery, influenced by dwimmer.

Meanings

  1. (humorous, uncountable) A computer program's ability to sense the user's intentions rather than work according to a well-defined specification.
    • The big challenge of Perl 6 is to achieve a high degree of dwimmery 2007 November 11, Michele Dondi, “Why can't you slice an array @a[3..-1]?”, in comp.lang.perl.misc (Usenet):
    • This dwimmery causes the model to show that polar melting rates have absolutely no connection to world climate in general, and to rising ocean levels in particular. 2005, Damian Conway, Perl Best Practices:
    • I think that, as with various other parts of Perl 6, we can try to sweep all the dwimmery into one spot so that it can be easily recognized and/or avoided. 2005 May 6, Larry Wall, “stdio”, in perl.perl6.language (Usenet):

Relateds

DWIM