Oxbow code: Difference between revisions

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Such code is normally removed unless sufficiently amusing or educational.

Similarly, variables and data structures can be left around after the last code that used them has gonebeen removed, though thesethis areis more commonly called [[unused variables|unused]] or [[unreferenced variable]]s.

The term is taken by analogy with [[oxbow lake]]s which are formed in nature when

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(from

[http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/gnash/server/asobj/Global.cpp?rev=1.46&root=gnash&view=markup gnash/server/asobj/Global.cpp 1.46])

<sourcesyntaxhighlight lang="Cpp">

static void

as_global_escape(const fn_call& fn)

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fn.result->set_string(strInput.c_str());

}

</syntaxhighlight>

</source>

In this, "strHexDigits" is oxbow code (or oxbow data).