charizing

English

Etymology

From char +‎ -ize +‎ -ing.

Noun

charizing (uncountable)

1. (programming) Conversion to, or treatment as, a char (text character).
   • 1993, Mark Andrews, Visual C++ Object-oriented Programming, page 186:

     These new features are charizing, stringization, token concatenation, string concatenation, trigraph replacement, and predefined macros.

Usage notes

• In the C and C++ programming languages, describes the preprocessor operator # (used as #foo), which converts some macro parameter (named foo in the example) to character literals without expanding the parameter definition.

See also

• stringize