2.4 Terminology and notation
In this document,
- A
boolean value, or boolean,
is an integer which is 0 or 1.
-
iff abbreviates “if and only if”.
-
application means an “application” of Libmarpa.
In this document,
a Libmarpa application is not necessarily an application program.
For our purposes, an “application”
might be another library which uses Libmarpa.
-
max(x,y)
is the maximum of
x
and y
,
where x
and y
are two numbers.
-
Libmarpa method, or just method means a C function
or a function-like macro of the Libmarpa library.
-
user means a “user” of the Libmarpa library.
A user of the library is also a programmer,
so that in this documents, “user”
and “programmer” are essentially synonyms.
-
We (and “us” and ”our”) refer to the authors.
As of this writing, there is a primary author,
but the plural is traditional, and our “we”
is intended to include the reader
and everyone
we are joining on the millenia-old voyage of discovery
into mathematics and language.