invariant

«invariant» in Mova's mysticism dictionary: Something that stays the same whatever changes around it… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

Something that stays the same whatever changes around it; a rule a program must always keep true. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the mystic school: In note 06 the debugger asks "Is the claimed invariant actually invariant?": does the promise stay true at the edge, under cost and temptation.

examples

• Is the claimed invariant actually invariant? (note 06) tree →
• He would not burn a soul without first writing down which invariant it was meant to check, and afterwards he filed a report. (note 06) tree →
• The categories were valid, but the tester forgot the subject is not just a target; "verify the invariant" became "why are you still running this?" — he understood testing well and boundaries poorly. (lesson 014) tree →

note

A record of the mystic school, written from the notes.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «invariant» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.