Preprocessor Glossary
Browse 4 preprocessor terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
4 Preprocessor Terms
- Macro
- A rule or pattern that generates or transforms code at compile time, expanding shorthand into more complex expressions — used in C preprocessor, Rust, Lisp,...
- Sass
- Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets — a CSS preprocessor that adds variables, nesting, mixins, partials, and inheritance to standard CSS. Sass files (.scss or...
- SCSS
- Sassy CSS — the newer, CSS-superset syntax of the Sass preprocessor that uses curly braces and semicolons (unlike the indentation-based `.sass` syntax), adding...
- Translation Unit
- The fundamental unit of compilation in C and C++: a single source file after the preprocessor has expanded all #include directives, macros, and conditional...
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- Compilation (1 terms in common)