peekable
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]peekable (comparative more peekable, superlative most peekable)
- (informal) Capable of being peeked at or into.
- 1972, New York Magazine, volume 5, number 31, page 45:
- Her fourteen dollhouses range in sophistication from a child-made primitive (1887) to an electrified manse set on a low table and peekable from all sides.
- (computing) Of a stream or other sequence: from which the next value can be retrieved without advancing the pointer from its current position.
- 2012, John Hunt, Smalltalk and Object Orientation: An Introduction, page 130:
- Peekable streams also have an internal record of their current position and can look ahead in the stream for information.