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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Is this a reference to something because I’d love to read it if you have a time to share.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Woah. I did a quick google and it's not just a meme, but actually used in some major lang's libraries.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is one of those "modern Google/search sucks" moments because I couldn't immediately find examples of it in a programming language.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I actually used DDG and most I've seen, they're just used as arguments for functions notably in C and Python

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It is used in ksh korn shell to see what executable responds to a command: