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dedent

dedent

English

Verb

dedent ‎(third-person singular simple present dedents, present participle dedenting, simple past and past participle dedented)

(computing, transitive, primarily Python) To outdent.
- 2008, Matthew A. Telles, Python Power!: The Comprehensive Guide, ISBN 1598631586, page 80-81:
  Dedent Region If there were any need to prove that Python was a programmer's tool, and not something written for anyone with the slightest grasp of the English language, instead of the Python language, this menu option would dissuade them from that belief. Really, who would call something dedent? ... Unlike the indenting command, dedenting (can this really be used as a verb?) a block can cause problems.
- 2009, Chris Smith, Programming F#, ISBN 0596153643, page 7
  If the body of the if statement, the failwith, was dedented four spaces and therefore lined up with the if keyword, the F# compiler would yield a warning.
- 2016, Laura Tateosian, Python For ArcGIS (page 24)
  Items within a block structure are sequential code statements indented the same amount to indicate that they are related. The first line of code dedented (moved back a notch) after a block structure does not belong to the block structure.

Latin

Verb

dēdent

third-person plural future active indicative of dēdō