write-only

Perl is, at times, a “write-only” language, especially without comments—it can lose its read capabilities over time.

eBookifying the Scifiction Archives | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2008

The table specifies whether the elements are read-only or write-only, whether they are persistent or handled only at run-time, and so on.

Reflective Surface - Implementing SCORM: Building the API 2003

Are they even using dedicated write-only and read-only mysql boxes via replication?

Twitter and Joyent Split Amidst Downtime Travails Mark Hendrickson 2005

I have been listening to the mantra "the hacker had write-only access to the database" since ever.

blogger gets hacked - Anil Dash 2002

From this definition, accesses permitted between subjects and objects are explicitly defined for the fundamental modes of access, including read-only access, read/write access, and write-only access.

The Department of Devense Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (The Orange Book) 1993

The basic concept behind a TPM is that it has "write-only" memory.

Ars Technica Ryan Paul 2010

Did MS developers finally learn to read [standards] or they are still in "write-only" mode?

Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0 2010

The basic concept behind a TPM is that it has "write-only" memory.

Ars Technica 2010

Naturally, there is no corresponding event for standardInput, given that STDIN is a write-only stream.

Planet PHP 2010

If they don't, it's pretty much like a write-only medium, which wouldn't be compelling.

Russell Beattie Russell Beattie 2010