functoid

Fun factoid.

Often a useless piece of information, but can be used as an ice breaker to start conversation.

"Shrimps can only swim backward" or "A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber" are both functoids.

'Snapple facts' are functoids written in the caps of Snapples.

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functoid

a functoid is a chunk of executable code that can define arbitrarily complex mappings between XML schemas

We wrote a custom functoid to perform the data translation between the Accounting and Payroll system's XML schemas.

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