4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Restriction \Re*stric"tion\, n. [F. restriction, L. restrictio.]
1. The act of restricting, or state of being restricted;
confinement within limits or bounds.
This is to have the same restriction with all other
recreations,that it be made a divertisement. --Giv.
of Tonque.
2. That which restricts; limitation; restraint; as
restrictions on trade
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
restriction
n 1: a principle that limits the extent of something "I am
willing to accept certain restrictions on my movements"
[syn: {limitation}]
2: the quality of being limited or restricted; "it is a good
plan but it has serious limitations" [syn: {limitation}]
3: an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation) [syn: {limitation}]
4: the act of restricting by restraint
From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]:
restriction n. A {bug} or design error that limits a program's
capabilities, and which is sufficiently egregious that nobody can quite
work up enough nerve to describe it as a {feature}. Often used (esp. by
{marketroid} types) to make it sound as though some crippling bogosity
had been intended by the designers all along or was forced upon them
by arcane technical constraints of a nature no mere user could possibly
comprehend (these claims are almost invariably false).
Old-time hacker Joseph M. Newcomer advises that whenever choosing a
quantifiable but arbitrary restriction, you should make it either a
power of 2 or a power of 2 minus 1. If you impose a limit of 107
items in a list, everyone will know it is a random number -- on the
other hand, a limit of 15 or 16 suggests some deep reason (involving 0-
or 1-based indexing in binary) and you will get less {flamage} for it
Limits which are round numbers in base 10 are always especially suspect.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
restriction
A {bug} or design error that limits a program's capabilities,
and which is sufficiently egregious that nobody can quite work
up enough nerve to describe it as a {feature}. Often used
(especially by {marketroid} types) to make it sound as though
some crippling bogosity had been intended by the designers all
along or was forced upon them by arcane technical constraints
of a nature no mere user could possibly comprehend (these
claims are almost invariably false).
Old-time hacker Joseph M. Newcomer advises that whenever
choosing a quantifiable but arbitrary restriction, you should
make it either a power of 2 or a power of 2 minus 1. If you
impose a limit of 17 items in a list, everyone will know it is
a random number - on the other hand, a limit of 15 or 16
suggests some deep reason (involving 0- or 1-based indexing in
binary) and you will get less {flamage} for it Limits which
are round numbers in base 10 are always especially suspect.
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