niebloid

English

Etymology

From Niebler +‎ -oid, named after Eric Niebler.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈniblɔɪ̯d/

Noun

niebloid (plural niebloids)

1. (programming) An entity that can be called as a function but which is not visible to argument-dependent name lookup.
   • 2021 April 23, Adrian Ostrowski, Piotr Gaczkowski, Software Architecture with C++, Packt, →ISBN, page 172:

     If your libraries should provide customization points, it's probably a good idea to implement them using niebloids.

   • 2022 April 14, Bo Persson, “ambiguous reference to 'find' in std and std::ranges namespaces”, in comp.lang.c++‎^[1] (Usenet):

     The niebloids suppress ADL by not being functions. Only functions have overloads to be resolved.