How to pronounce “lookahead”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (computing, software compilation) The analysis in advance of subsequent decisions that would be made if a particular branch of an algorithm was followed.
• (regular expressions) The analysis of the subsequent characters before the regular expression is matched.

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Similar Sounds

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