heikja
September 24, 2020, 6:02pm
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Is this short for a stubborn page? ; Something that should work but for some odd unexplainable reason does not work correctly?
ilenia
September 24, 2020, 6:46pm
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it’s more like a placeholder for something else
looking at wikipedia, there are many possible usage
A method stub or simply stub in software development is a piece of code used to stand in for some other programming functionality. A stub may simulate the behavior of existing code (such as a procedure on a remote machine, such methods are often called mocks) or be a temporary substitute for yet-to-be-developed code. Stubs are therefore most useful in porting, distributed computing as well as general software development and testing.
An example of a stub in pseudocode might be as follows:
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if you found it on some guide page, the most appropriate definition is “a temporary substitute for yet-to-be-developed code” - those are pages that have not been written yet
heikja
September 24, 2020, 9:00pm
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So essentially my train of thought was on the right path. Thanks for replying.