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y [n]

1)	a silvery metallic element that is common in rare-earth minerals; used in magnesium and aluminum alloys

Synonyms :

atomic_number_39 yttrium

See Also:

metal gadolinite fergusonite xenotime

2)	the 25th letter of the Roman alphabet

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alphabetic_character latin_alphabet

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

1. General purpose language syntactically like RATFOR, semantically like C. Lacks structures and pointers. Used as a source language for Jack W. Davidson and Christopher W. Fraser's peephole optimiser which inspired GCC RTL and other optimisation ideas.

ftp://ftp.cs.princeton.edu/pub/y+po.tar.Z. It is a copy of the original distribution from the University of Arizona during the early 80's, totally unsupported.

["The Y Programming Language", D.R. Hanson, SIGPLAN Notices 16(2):59-68 (Feb 1981)].

[Jack W. Davidson and Christopher W. Fraser, "The Design and Application of a Retargetable Peephole Optimiser", TOPLAS, Apr. 1980].

[Jack W. Davidson, "Simplifying Code Through Peephole Optimisation" Technical Report TR81-19, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 1981].

[Jack W. Davidson and Christopher W. Fraser, "Register Allocation and Exhaustive Peephole Optimisation" Software-Practice and Experience, Sep. 1984].

2. See fixed point combinator.

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