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   sub·sti·tute

   /ˈsəbstəˌto͞ot/

   noun

   • 1. a person or thing acting or serving in place of another: "soy milk is used as a substitute for dairy milk"
   • ▪ a sports player nominated as eligible to replace another after a game has begun.
   • ▪ a person or thing that becomes the object of love or other emotion deprived of its natural outlet: "a father substitute"

   verb

   • 1. use or add in place of: "dried rosemary can be substituted for the fresh herb" Similar exchangeuse as a replacementswitchreplace withuse instead ofuse as an alternative touse in place ofuse in preference totradeinformal:swap
   • ▪ act or serve as a substitute: "I found someone to substitute for me"
   • ▪ replace (someone or something) with another: "customs officers substituted the drugs with another substance"
   • ▪ replace (a sports player) with a substitute during a contest: "he was substituted for Nichols in the fifth inning"
   • ▪ replace (an atom or group in a molecule, especially a hydrogen atom) with another.

   Word Origin late Middle English (denoting a deputy or delegate): from Latin substitutus ‘put in place of’, past participle of substituere, based on statuere ‘set up’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. substitutability noun
   • 2. substitutable adjective
   • 3. substitutive adjective

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2. stackoverflow.com › questions › 4715831Why is #define bad and what is the proper substitute? [closed]

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 4715831

   Feb 5, 2016 · 2. #define is a preprocessor instruction that defines a macro. In your case macro dItemName with value L"CellPhone". Macros are bad mostly because they are processed before the actual code is. This means that they aren't subjected to scopes and to the rules of C++ syntax.

3. stackoverflow.com › questions › 10261803Alternatives to using "#define" in C++? Why is it frowned upon?

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 10261803

   5. #define isn't inherently bad, it's just easy to abuse. For something like a version string it works fine, although a const char* would be better, but many programmers use it for much more than that. Using #define as a typedef for example is silly when, in most cases, a typedef would be better. So there's nothing wrong with #define statements ...

4. stackoverflow.com › questions › 35496337Overriding "endl" in C++ by #define preprocessor directive

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 35496337

   Feb 19, 2016 · The first one, resolving #define is the preprocessor and a simple text-replacement. It doesn't care what you replace and is not aware of any keywords. The second part is the compilation itself, where keywords are actually interpreted and given some "meaning". In your example, the line. cout << "start " << endl << " end"; becomes.

5. stackoverflow.com › questions › 2333994How to avoid variable substitution in Oracle SQL Developer

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 2333994

   Call this before the query: set define off; Alternatively, hacky: update t set country = 'Trinidad and Tobago' where country = 'trinidad &' || ' tobago'; From Tuning SQL*Plus: SET DEFINE OFF disables the parsing of commands to replace substitution variables with their values. edited Apr 11, 2012 at 9:25. Álvaro González.

6. stackoverflow.com › questions › 9452108How to use string.replace () in python 3.x - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 9452108

   Feb 26, 2012 · 28. The replace () method in python 3 is used simply by: a = "This is the island of istanbul". print (a.replace("is" , "was" , 3)) #3 is the maximum replacement that can be done in the string#. >>> Thwas was the wasland of istanbul.

7. stackoverflow.com › questions › 46834655What's the difference between substitute and quote in R

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 46834655

   Oct 19, 2017 · 43. In the official docs, it says: substitute returns the parse tree for the (unevaluated) expression expr, substituting any variables bound in env. quote simply returns its argument. The argument is not evaluated and can be any R expression. But when I try:

8. stackoverflow.com › questions › 51874132Replacing function call (and not declaration) with define C

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 51874132

   Aug 16, 2018 · The syntax doesn't include a semicolon: #define test printf. Calling a function like printf() like this (somewhat obscured) can be risky, especially if the caller doesn't expect that their string is used as a format string. Prefer #define test(msg) printf("%s", msg) After a #define test ..., the pre-processor will dumbly replace all instances ...

9. stackoverflow.com › questions › 357353Implementation of Curried Functions in Scheme - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 357353

   Jun 5, 2012 · soegaard's answer is correct - this is the traditional expansion. However, drscheme is smart! The following code I've found to be equivalent in running time:

10. stackoverflow.com › questions › 21261888vim: substitute characters from backreference - Stack Overflow

    stackoverflow.com › questions › 21261888

    Jan 21, 2014 · I want to do the following subtitutions in vim: I have a string (with spaces eventually) and a number at the end of the line. I want to create a C #define with that string in uppercase + a prefix +

11. stackoverflow.com › questions › 29650633how to substitute function using macro in C - Stack Overflow

    stackoverflow.com › questions › 29650633

    Apr 15, 2015 · 5. You can do it with a variadic macro, which takes a variable number of arguments: #define SMSC_TRACE(a,b,...) printf(__VA_ARGS__) If you want this macro to execute multiple statements, then you need a do/while(0). For example: #define SMSC_TRACE(a,b,...) do \. { \.