A description of an operator or function which takes no arguments, e.g. a function that returns the current time.

"Nullary" is part of the unary, binary, ternary sequence, and is more common than its synonym niladic.

Last updated: 2001-02-25

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nukenullnullarynull modemnull-terminated multibyte string

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