punt
(From the pun Ch line of an old joke referring to Ameri Can football: "Drop ba Ck 15 yards and punt!") 1. To give up, typi Cally without any intention of retrying. "Let' s punt the movie tonight." "I was going to ha Ck all night to get this feature in, but I de Cided to punt" may mean that you' ve de Cided not to stay up all night, and may also mean you' re not ever even going to put in the feature. 2. More spe Cifi Cally, to give up on figuring out what the Right Thing is and resort to an ineffi Cient ha Ck. 3. A design de Cision to defer solving a problem, typi Cally be Cause one Cannot define what is desirable suffi Ciently well to frame an algorithmi C solution. "No way to know what the right form to dump the graph in is - we' ll punt that for now." 4. To hand a tri Cky implementation problem off to some other se Ction of the design. "It' s too hard to get the Compiler to do that let' s punt to the run-time system." [ Jargon File] In addition suitable Contents: [ 2 ] [ = ] [ al ] [ algorithm ] [ am ] [ an ] [ ar ] [ arC ] [ arg ] [ as ] [ at ] [ au ] [ b ] [ ba ] [ be ] [ Ca ] [ Ch ] [ Ci ] [ Ck ] [ Co ] [ Com ] [ Compiler ] [ D ] [ de ] [ deC ] [ design ] [ do ] [ du ] [ dump ] [ eC ] [ ed ] [ er ] [ es ] [ et ] [ feature ] [ fi ] [ file ] [ fo ] [ for ] [ fr ] [ frame ] [ ge ] [ gh ] [ gi ] [ gn ] [ gr ] [ graph ] [ gu ] [ h ] [ haCk ] [ hat ] [ hing ] [ hm ] [ hr ] [ ht ] [ id ] [ ie ] [ il ] [ in ] [ int ] [ io ] [ ir ] [ is ] [ it ] [ J ] [ Jargon File ] [ jo ] [ ke ] [ kn ] [ ky ] [ ld ] [ Lex ] [ li ] [ line ] [ ls ] [ lu ] [ lv ] [ ly ] [ M ] [ ma ] [ mo ] [ mod ] [ module ] [ mp ] [ N ] [ na ] [ nC ] [ ne ] [ ng ] [ ni ] [ nn ] [ no ] [ om ] [ op ] [ pe ] [ ph ] [ pl ] [ pr ] [ query ] [ rC ] [ re ] [ Right Thing ] [ ro ] [ ru ] [ run ] [ run-time system ] [ se ] [ si ] [ sig ] [ so ] [ solution ] [ sort ] [ speC ] [ st ] [ su ] [ sy ] [ system ] [ T ] [ th ] [ to ] [ tr ] [ um ] [ up ] [ us ] [ ve ] [ vi ]
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