neededness

Definitions

1. The state of being needed or necessary.
   rare, uncountable
2. Dependency; the state of one segment of code requiring another segment to complete.
   uncountable

Examples

“Hey, better yet, wouldn't it be neat if society raised us to expect⟳ interdependency? You know⟳, like⟳ where you each take⟳ care of each other...what a cool concept. Then everyone would have⟳ the security of being taken care of while feeling the pleasure and neededness of taking care of someone else.”

“All right then . . . what about . . . neededness? D'you know⟳, Mandy, that's what's the matter⟳ with me today! I've lost my neededness!”

“Such nested calls are a major source of difficulty in designing a fixpoint algorithm based on neededness analysis, because they are the reason⟳ for the dynamic nature of the neededness information.”

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