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Tech/Engineering - Computers: Systems, Networks / Communications equipment | | Spanish term or phrase: llaman a funciones | Is anyone able to explain what this phrase means?
"temporizadores, que al cumplirse **llaman a funciones** de usuario o activan "event flags", con o sin recarga automática (temporizadores periódicos)."
A similar phrase appears later in the text and I'm assuming it is related.
"El mecanismo de intercambio de mensajes del RFE está basado en **llamadas a funciones**. Dentro de estas funciones las hay con base de tiempo y de ejecución inmediata. Estas últimas son las más prioritarias y se corresponden con repetición de mensaje, mandos y petición de estado. Las demás tienen una base de tiempo que marcará su ejecución en el momento que corresponda. Estas funciones son las de scan de seguridad o bajo demanda, servicio de incidencias, sincronización, scan síncrono y scan asíncrono. Se determina la función a ejecutar dependiendo de la que lleve más tiempo esperando la ejecución."
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| | call user functions | Explanation:
This is one computer function calling another. In this case a certain range of functions "temporizadores" (I'd need more context to know what the term means) calls another: i.e. the function that displays a menu showing the user options available to the user.
"llamadas a funciones" is probably a translation of "function calls".
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Re. your note: A "call up" function is either a function that does precisely nothing but call up another function (which doesn't make sense anywhere -- why would you need to call a function to call up a function?) or it calls up a telephone or something analogous. That doesn't seem to be what's happening here.
I suppose it might be possible to call up a function, but you usually just call one. "call up function", imo, is probably either confusing or plain wrong.
I suppose a little more context on what "temporizadores" do might help clarify matters.
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On second reading, it seems to me "temporizadores" are just timers that either call functions or set event flags after a particular time according to the rules your sample paragraph describes.
I think you're safe as houses with "function call" and "call user functions". I don't think "user options" is right in this case, because that would suggest that what's called is a menu listing. What they seem to mean is some function or other available to the user. |
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36 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1 | llamar a funciones de usuario call user functions
Explanation:
This is one computer function calling another. In this case a certain range of functions "temporizadores" (I'd need more context to know what the term means) calls another: i.e. the function that displays a menu showing the user options available to the user.
"llamadas a funciones" is probably a translation of "function calls".
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Note added at 51 mins (2011-08-12 11:37:55 GMT)
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Re. your note: A "call up" function is either a function that does precisely nothing but call up another function (which doesn't make sense anywhere -- why would you need to call a function to call up a function?) or it calls up a telephone or something analogous. That doesn't seem to be what's happening here.
I suppose it might be possible to call up a function, but you usually just call one. "call up function", imo, is probably either confusing or plain wrong.
I suppose a little more context on what "temporizadores" do might help clarify matters.
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Note added at 58 mins (2011-08-12 11:45:48 GMT)
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On second reading, it seems to me "temporizadores" are just timers that either call functions or set event flags after a particular time according to the rules your sample paragraph describes.
I think you're safe as houses with "function call" and "call user functions". I don't think "user options" is right in this case, because that would suggest that what's called is a menu listing. What they seem to mean is some function or other available to the user.
Example sentence(s):- To call user functions from an internal function, you should use the call_user_function() function
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_call
Reference: http://ific.uv.es/informatica/manuales/php/calling-user-func...
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| | Grading comment | Thanks very much, Jaime. Much appreciated! |
| Notes to answerer
Asker: I also thought "call user functions" and "function calls" based on previous ProZ answers. However, another translator said they thought it was "call up functions". Since it's not my area, I don't really know what the difference is between the two.
Asker: Thanks very much for the clarification and explanation, Jaime. I believe that "temporizadores" are "timers" in this context.
Asker: Thanks for your detailed and obviously knowledgeable answer, Jaime.
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