Referential Transparency

Referential transparency may refer to:

  • Referential transparency (computer science), a property whereby an expression can be replaced by its value without affecting the program
  • The opposite of an opaque context in linguistics and philosophical logic

Famous quotes containing the word transparency:

    ““End of tomorrow.
    Don’t try to start the car or look deeper
    Into the eternal wimpling of the sky: luster
    On luster, transparency floated onto the topmost layer
    Until the whole thing overflows like a silver
    Wedding cake or Christmas tree, in a cascade of tears.””
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)