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nezbyte@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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?
sznowicki@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
towerful@programming.dev 6 months ago
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
sznowicki@lemmy.world 6 months ago
For ?? I guess it already has a decent results. I’ll periodically check those kind of cases once the index gets more languages.
kukei.eu/?q=js+%3F%3F+operator
themusicman@lemmy.world 6 months ago
?? is intuitive if you (truly) understand ||
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Yea, I don’t know why people want to learn things - it’s easier to just know them! /s