Meaning of dedentation | Babel Free

Definitions

The reversal of indentation, moving the text cursor back out from its indented position.

informal, rare, uncountable

Examples

“A new code block is recognized when the amount of indentation has increased, and its termination is signaled by a "dedentation," or a reduction of indentation matching a previous level's.”

“Again, as with every code subblock, indentation (and dedentation) are used to delimit blocks of code as well as to indicate which block of code statements belong to […]”

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