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dedentation

noun

Etymology

Blend of de- + indentation.

  1. inherited from indenten
  2. formed as indentation — “indent + -ation”
  3. compounded as dedentation — “de- + indentation”

Definitions

  1. The reversal of indentation, moving the text cursor back out from its indented position.

    • A new code block is recognized when the amount of indentation has increased, and its termination is signaled by a "dedentation," or a reduction of indentation matching a previous level's.
    • Again, as with every code subblock, indentation (and dedentation) are used to delimit blocks of code as well as to indicate which block of code statements belong to […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dedentation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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