Meaning of lookahead | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The analysis in advance of subsequent decisions that would be made if a particular branch of an algorithm was followed.
   countable, uncountable
2. The analysis of the subsequent characters before the regular expression is matched.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“Our computer chess program⟳ uses lookahead to avoid⟳ difficult endgames.”

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