scrutinee

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English

Noun

scrutinee (plural scrutinees)

  1. (functional programming) The expression that is matched against a pattern matching construct.
    • 2024, Benjamin C. Pierce et al., Logical Foundations (Software Foundations):
      The reason that simpl doesn't make progress here is that it notices that, after tentatively unfolding bar m, it is left with a match whose scrutinee, m, is a variable, so the match cannot be simplified further.