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minus-squarefartsparkles@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up14·11 months agoIs this a reference to something because I’d love to read it if you have a time to share.
minus-squarexx3rawr@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·11 months agoWoah. I did a quick google and it’s not just a meme, but actually used in some major lang’s libraries.
minus-squarejjjalljs@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkarrow-up4·11 months agoThis is one of those “modern Google/search sucks” moments because I couldn’t immediately find examples of it in a programming language.
minus-squarexx3rawr@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoI actually used DDG and most I’ve seen, they’re just used as arguments for functions notably in C and Python
minus-squareLeFrog@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-211 months agoIt is used in ksh korn shell to see what executable responds to a command: https://superuser.com/a/351995 Edit: Oh, what a rabbit hole: Why not use “which”? What to use then?
minus-squareSubArcticTundra@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-211 months agoLegislation (which feels similar to programming languages sometimes) seems to have some keywords of its own. I remember seeing a lot of Whereas ... and Having regard to ....
Still not as good as
whence
Is this a reference to something because I’d love to read it if you have a time to share.
Woah. I did a quick google and it’s not just a meme, but actually used in some major lang’s libraries.
This is one of those “modern Google/search sucks” moments because I couldn’t immediately find examples of it in a programming language.
I actually used DDG and most I’ve seen, they’re just used as arguments for functions notably in C and Python
It is used in
ksh
korn shell to see what executable responds to a command:https://superuser.com/a/351995
Edit: Oh, what a rabbit hole: Why not use “which”? What to use then?
Legislation (which feels similar to programming languages sometimes) seems to have some keywords of its own. I remember seeing a lot of
Whereas ...
andHaving regard to ...
.