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There was a programming search engine called Symbol Hound that allowed for searching for special symbols like << and &&. It was my fallback search engine while programming if I couldn’t find something on the first page of Google. Sadly, that site appears to have disappeared. Does this search engine have optional support for special characters?
If it has it's totally accidental.
What's the use case for searching for those kind of symbols? I'll check if I can tune it for this.
When you want to know the name of the operator for a language.
Like "what does & mean in c++?".
&
isn't too bad, but some of them can be difficult (like "JavaScript ??").And if you don't know it's called a reference operator, or a bullish coalescence operator, or whatever... Trying to learn what it does can be downright impossible
For ?? I guess it already has a decent results. I’ll periodically check those kind of cases once the index gets more languages.
https://kukei.eu/?q=js+%3F%3F+operator
?? is intuitive if you (truly) understand ||
Yea, I don't know why people want to learn things - it's easier to just know them! /s
Have you tried divining syntax from reading the entrails of a sacrificed goat?
It works on my machine
What? The previous comment said it's "downright impossible to learn" which is nonsense.
|| means "Evaluate and use the left operand, unless it's falsy, in which case evaluate and use the right operand instead"
?? means "Evaluate and use the left operand, unless it's nullish, in which case evaluate and use the right operand instead"
They're the same thing except for which values fall through to the second operand
Yea, I'm well aware.
But you had to learn that somewhere... nothing is intuitive for a novice.
Exactly. We all learnt it, so "downright impossible to learn" is bullshit