meaning of ifx

1. IFX ["Type Reconstruction with First-Class Polymorphic Values", J. OToole et al, SIGPLAN Notices 247:207-217 Jul 1989]. If you want X, you know where to find it. There is a legend that Dennis Ritchie, inventor of C, once responded to demands for features resembling those of what at the time was a much more popular language by observing "If you want PL/I, you know where to find it. " Ever since, this has been hackish standard form for fending off requests to alter a new design to mimic some older and, by implication, inferior and baroque one. The case X = Pascal manifests semi-regularly on Usenets news:comp. lang. c newsgroup. Indeed, the case X = X has been reported in discussions of graphics software see X Window System. [Jargon File]

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