meaning of trafola
1. Trafola-H A specification language for program transformations. Functional, statically typed, polymorphic, with extended constructs for pattern-matching. "Trafola-H Reference Manual", R. Heckmann et al, U Saarlandes, Saarbrucken 1991. trampoline An incredibly hairy technique, found in some HLL and program-overlay implementations e. g. on the Macintosh, that involves on-the-fly generation of small executable and, likely as not, self-modifying code objects to do indirection between code sections. These pieces of live data are called "trampolines". Trampolines are notoriously difficult to understand in action; in fact, it is said by those who use this term that the trampoline that doesnt bend your brain is not the true trampoline. See also snap. [Jargon File]
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