The Collaborative International Dictionary
Strop \Strop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stropped; p. pr. & vb. n. Stropping.] To draw over, or rub upon, a strop with a view to sharpen; as, to strop a razor.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of strop English)
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Wikipedia
In computer language design, stropping is a method of explicitly marking letter sequences as having a special property such as being a keyword or certain type of variable or storage location, and thus inhabiting a different namespace from ordinary names ("identifiers"), avoiding clashes. Stropping is not used in most modern languages – instead, keywords are reserved words and cannot be used as identifiers. Stropping allows the same letter sequence to be used both as a keyword and as an identifier, and simplifies parsing in that case – for example allowing a variable named if without clashing with the keyword if.
Stropping is primarily associated with ALGOL and related languages in the 1960s. Though it finds some modern use, it is easily confused with other similar techniques that are superficially similar.
Stropping may refer to:
- Stropping (blade), a finishing step in sharpening a blade
- Stropping (syntax), a way of marking words as special in a programming language
Usage examples of "stropping".
When I didn't answer he started stropping my shins vigorously back and forth while still demanding an explanation.
The kitten trotted closer to him and began walking back and forth in front of him like a sentry, stropping against his leg on each pass.
Arthur, who was stropping a razor and whistling tunelessly, raised his eyebrows.
At the time it had seemed to him that the Earl's remark that the latter needed polishing and the former stropping betrayed only a kindly consideration for his guest's well-being.
The stupid bastard was carefully stropping a dagger about as long as his forearm on a diamond sharpener, as if he was going to be using it on Posleen the next day.
The constant stropping was beginning to be more irritating than the scratch of the wool blanket on his bed.
Plainly, he heard, smelted, or otherwise recognized me in spite of his back being turned He jumped to his feet, turned about, and came bounding at me like a kitten, purring like an outboard motor and stropping himself up against me with unrestrained enthusiasm.
A black, furry thunderbolt shot past him, flew through the air and landed on top of me, stropping my face with a file-rough tongue.