Timeline for Where's the interpolation in "string interpolation"?
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| Dec 28, 2020 at 1:24 | comment | added | philipxy | You can't infer anything from the name of a thing. | |
| Dec 27, 2020 at 7:51 | comment | added | Jörg W Mittag | And even IFF everything you were saying were true, your whole question is still based on the wrong premise that there can only be one single meaning of a word, across all possible different communities. That is not true. The same word can mean different things in different communities. For example, the word functor in category theory has also been used in functional programming to mean something closely related. It, however, is also used in C++ to mean something totally unrelated. | |
| Dec 27, 2020 at 4:56 | vote | accept | NPN328 | ||
| Dec 27, 2020 at 0:22 | answer | added | Jasmijn | timeline score: 6 | |
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| Dec 26, 2020 at 23:56 | comment | added | Ben Cottrell | The term interpolation in the English language (and therefore also Mathematics and Computer Graphics) is not about estimation or calculation, it means "insertion". So 'String interpolation' is about inserting values into a string. | |
| Dec 26, 2020 at 23:53 | history | edited | NPN328 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 26, 2020 at 23:46 | history | asked | NPN328 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |