Function: abbreviation
Policy Of Least Astonishment, a principle in interface design/engineering that existing practices and expectations should not be changed without enough prior notice and discussion, in order to avoid catching other colleagues with unexpected confusion and/or frustration.
Repeated violation of POLA is often a sign of a prima donna (someone with an egotistical "my way, or no way" attitude).
Policy Of Least Astonishment, a principle in interface design/engineering that existing practices and expectations should not be changed without enough prior notice and discussion, in order to avoid catching other colleagues with unexpected confusion and/or frustration.
Repeated violation of POLA is often a sign of a prima donna (someone with an egotistical "my way, or no way" attitude).
Hey, good job violating POLA by negating the return value of that function... Do you even realize you just broke the entire thing for 6289367918234 days until the others fix their own code that calls your function?
by Eugene M. Kim October 24, 2005
Slang: The parallel phrase to “son of a bitch” in the Bengali language. However, equivocal uses are open for interpretation - It can also mean son of a whore, son of a gun, or son of a woman who was raped by a chimpanzee and had given birth to a son.
by Jeremy_spoken May 6, 2019
That Goth girl i was with last night didn't say no to some back door action. So I turned her around and...POLA-CULO!!!
so I gave her some pola-culo...
so I gave her some pola-culo...
by LodKhyron75 October 7, 2003
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