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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

dummy variable

A variable that appears within a program but which is not actually used. This may be because the syntax of the programming language requires a variable but the data contained is not needed.

Related terms
variable typedeclare a variabledynamic variableenvironment variableglobal variablelocal variablestatic variablevariable
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