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  • parm
    /parm/ n. Further-compressed form of {param}. This term is an IBMism, and written use is almost unknown outside IBM shops; spoken /parm/ is... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION


    •  View Definition: condition out 

    condition out

    vt. To prevent a section of code from being compiled by surrounding it with a conditional-compilation directive whose condition is always false. The canonical examples are `#if 0' (or `#ifdef notdef', though some find this bletcherous) and `#endif' in C. Compare comment out.