 Application programming interface (source code)

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= Application programming interface

= API
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An <application programming interface> defines the operations available to client code and their promised behavior, including <inputs>, <outputs> and failure cases. For a <FIFO queue>, operation names alone do not specify what happens on an empty or full queue. An <API> should state those cases before clients depend on them.

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