Meaning of breadcrumb | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A tiny piece of bread, either one that falls from bread as it is cut or eaten, or one made deliberately by crumbling bread.
   in-plural
2. A single link in a chain indicating the hierarchical location of a directory, web page or similar, used as a navigation aid.
   in-plural
3. A fragment of data that serves to log the actions taken by a program, used in debugging.
   in-plural
4. One in a series of clues leading to a person or place.
   figuratively, in-plural

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Examples

“Breadcrumbs usually look something like this: "Home > About Us > Staff" and are positioned near the top navigation. […] The words in the breadcrumbs are links to pages at higher levels of the website.”

“If you believe the system can merrily proceed despite an assertion failure, code the exception handler to log the error, leaving debugging breadcrumbs behind, and return.”

“[…] track metrics used to improve performance, or log a series of breadcrumbs to track an application's progress, […]”

“Before he died, James Halliday (Mark Rylance), the hermit-like, socially maladjusted tech genius who created The Oasis, hid an Easter egg somewhere in the circuitry, scattering bread crumbs that lead to its location. Find the egg, and the mogul’s fortune—along with total control of his digital fiefdom—is yours. It’s the ultimate capitalist scavenger hunt!”

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