Sentence examples for ordinary function from inspiring English sources

If function-name names an ordinary function, a macro, or a special operator, an error is signaled.

If function-name names an ordinary function, a macro, or a special operator, an error of type error is signaled.

"The whole creation," Ms. Sheraton wrote, "gives testimony to the belief that the most ordinary function can be performed in the most extraordinary ways".

But every one of them has an ancestor which is simply a function, not a vector, but a scalar function, an ordinary function of x and y.

Without the parentheses we have ordinary function composition: J first applies the unary "%" operator, then the unary "^" operator (which means the exponential function), so "^%3" is e1/3.

The difference between funcall and an ordinary function call is that in the former case the function is obtained by ordinary evaluation of a form, and in the latter case it is obtained by the special interpretation of the function position that normally occurs.

be inside the scope of the BLOCK in an ordinary function-defining form.

New Labour gave them explicit permission in 2003 to trade "ordinary functions" for a "commercial purpose".

To regulate and abate nuisances is one of its ordinary functions.

"I will be there for her," he said, "but I will not interrupt the ordinary functioning of her government.

Under such circumstances, Desmond's extraordinary heroism isn't the sole grand mystery; so is every soldier's ordinary functioning.