variadic en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /vɛɹiˈædɪk/ (US)
- /vɛəɹiˈædɪk/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From variable + -adic.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Taking a variable number of arguments; especially, taking arbitrarily many arguments.
The variadic functions that increase the valence of the input relation through the addition of a circumstance to the set of its argument-roles can be represented by means of an operator (or rather, a family of operators) ‘Circ’.
2004, François Récanati, Literal Meaning, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 109:There are some functions and predicates which we tend to think of as being able to take any number of parameters – of being of variable arity or variadic.
1983, Alan Bundy, The Computer Modelling of Mathematical Reasoning, Academic Press, page 48:C's printf is one of the most widely used variadic functions.
However, the real max procedure of Scheme is a variadic procedure, which means that it accepts any positive number of arguments: ¶ (max 5 1 3 8 9 7 2 6 4) => 9
2006, Nils M. Holm, Sketchy LISP: An Introduction to Functional Programming in Scheme, 2nd edition, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 53:
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(not-comparable) Belonging to a variadic function.
each variadic argument
Deriveds
Relateds
monadic · polyadic · triadic · diadic
Translations (7)
hu variadikus (taking a variable number of arguments) · de variadisch (taking a variable number of arguments) · ru принимающий переменное число́ параметров (taking a variable number of arguments) · fr variadique (taking a variable number of arguments) · es variádico (taking a variable number of arguments) · fi variadinen (taking a variable number of arguments) · cs variadický (taking a variable number of arguments)