punt
(From the punch line of an old joke referring to American football: "Drop back 15 Yards and punt!") 1. To give up, t Ypicall Y without an Y intention of retr Ying. "Let' s punt the movie tonight." "I was going to hack all night to get this feature in, but I decided to punt" ma Y mean that You' ve decided not to sta Y up all night, and ma Y also mean You' re not ever even going to put in the feature. 2. More specificall Y, to give up on figuring out what the Right Thing is and resort to an inefficient hack. 3. A design decision to defer solving a problem, t Ypicall Y because one cannot define what is desirable sufficientl Y well to frame an algorithmic solution. "No wa Y to know what the right form to dump the graph in is - we' ll punt that for now." 4. To hand a trick Y implementation problem off to some other section of the design. "It' s too hard to get the compiler to do that let' s punt to the run-time s Ystem." [ Jargon File] Yle="border-width:thin; border-color:#333333; border-stYle:dashed; padding:5px;" align="left">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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