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:

    “Life is filigree work.... What is written clearly is not worth much, it’s the transparency that counts.”
    —Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)