distfix

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
distfix

   <programming> ("distributed {fixity}"?) A description of an
   {operator} represented by multiple symbols before, between,
   and/or after the arguments.

   The classical example is the {C} conditional operator, "?:"
   which is written

   	E1 ? E2 : E3

   If E1 is true it returns E2 otherwise it returns E3.  Several
   {functional programming languages}, e.g. {Hope}, {Haskell},
   have similar operators ("if E1 then E2 else E3").

   {Objective C} {messages} are effectively distfix operator
   applications:

   	getRow:row andColumn:col ofCell:cell

   is a message with three arguments, row, col, and cell.

   (1997-01-21)