fire and forget
adj1
Not requiring further control, feedback, or response after an initial action, launch, etc.
- Related terms
- set-and-forget
fire and forget
noun1
Government, Military, Politics, War A kind of missile guidance system which does not require further control after launch, and can hit its target without the launcher being in line of sight of the target.
2
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences The practice of transmitting or raising something, such as an event, and then proceeding without checking for any result or response.
- An event aggregator facilitates a fire-and-forget model of communication. The object triggering the event doesn't care if there are any subscribers. It just fires the event and moves on. A mediator, though, might use events to make decisions, but it is definitely not fire and forget.2013, Addy Osmani, Developing Backbone.js Applications, page 175:
- Post is a “fire and forget” where the UI thread work is performed asynchronously; Send is synchronous in that the call blocks until the UI thread work has been performed.2014, Richard Blewett, Andrew Clymer, Pro Asynchronous Programming with .NET, page 25: