It is used in korn shell to see what executable responds to a command:
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fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works 10 months agoIs this a reference to something because I’d love to read it if you have a time to share.
LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Woah. I did a quick google and it’s not just a meme, but actually used in some major lang’s libraries.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 10 months ago
This is one of those “modern Google/search sucks” moments because I couldn’t immediately find examples of it in a programming language.
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I actually used DDG and most I’ve seen, they’re just used as arguments for functions notably in C and Python